On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:02, Akinobu Mita wrote: > unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w); > unsigned int hweight16(unsigned int w); > unsigned int hweight8(unsigned int w); > unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w); IMHO, this should use explicitly sized integers like __u8, __u16 etc, unless there are stringent reasons like better register use - which is hard to tell for generic C code. Also, why on earth is the returntype for hweight64 a long? > +static inline unsigned int hweight32(unsigned int w) > +{ > + unsigned int res = (w & 0x55555555) + ((w >> 1) & 0x55555555); > + res = (res & 0x33333333) + ((res >> 2) & 0x33333333); [...] Why not use unsigned constants here? > +static inline unsigned long hweight64(__u64 w) > +{ [..] > + u64 res; > + res = (w & 0x5555555555555555ul) + ((w >> 1) & 0x5555555555555555ul); Why not use initialisation here, too? just my 2c Uli