File: System\Xml\Bits.cs
Project: ndp\fx\src\Xml\System.Xml.csproj (System.Xml)
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// <copyright file="Bits.cs" company="Microsoft">
//     Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
// </copyright>
// <owner current="true" primary="true">Microsoft</owner>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
namespace System.Xml {
    using System;
    using System.Diagnostics;
 
    /// <summary>
    /// Contains static utility methods used to manipulate bits in a word.
    /// </summary>
    internal static class Bits {
        private static readonly uint MASK_0101010101010101 = 0x55555555;
        private static readonly uint MASK_0011001100110011 = 0x33333333;
        private static readonly uint MASK_0000111100001111 = 0x0f0f0f0f;
        private static readonly uint MASK_0000000011111111 = 0x00ff00ff;
        private static readonly uint MASK_1111111111111111 = 0x0000ffff;
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the number of 1 bits in an unsigned integer.  Counts bits by divide-and-conquer method,
        /// first computing 16 2-bit counts, then 8 4-bit counts, then 4 8-bit counts, then 2 16-bit counts,
        /// and finally 1 32-bit count.
        /// </summary>
        public static int Count(uint num) {
            num = (num & MASK_0101010101010101) + ((num >> 1) & MASK_0101010101010101);
            num = (num & MASK_0011001100110011) + ((num >> 2) & MASK_0011001100110011);
            num = (num & MASK_0000111100001111) + ((num >> 4) & MASK_0000111100001111);
            num = (num & MASK_0000000011111111) + ((num >> 8) & MASK_0000000011111111);
            num = (num & MASK_1111111111111111) + (num >> 16);
 
            return (int) num;
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns true if the unsigned integer has exactly one bit set.
        /// </summary>
        public static bool ExactlyOne(uint num) {
            return num != 0 && (num & (num - 1)) == 0;
        }
 
#if !SILVERLIGHT // These methods are not used in Silverlight
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns true if the unsigned integer has more than one bit set.
        /// </summary>
        public static bool MoreThanOne(uint num) {
            return (num & (num - 1)) != 0;
        }
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Clear the least significant bit that is set and return the result.
        /// </summary>
        public static uint ClearLeast(uint num) {
            return num & (num - 1);
        }
#endif
 
        /// <summary>
        /// Compute the 1-based position of the least sigificant bit that is set, and return it (return 0 if no bits are set).
        /// (e.g. 0x1001100 will return 3, since the 3rd bit is set).
        /// </summary>
        public static int LeastPosition(uint num) {
            if (num == 0) return 0;
            return Count(num ^ (num - 1));
        }
    }
}