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CandyMan

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CandyMan 14 Dec 2022, 10:16

Code:

A = bsr(-1)
processed: A=bsr(-1)
error: value out of range.

Code:

macro IsPower V
{
  A = bsf(V)
  B = bsr(V)
if A=B
  display 'IsPowerOf2'
end if
}

V = -1

IsPower V

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Tomasz Grysztar 14 Dec 2022, 11:26

CandyMan wrote:

Code:

A = bsr(-1)
processed: A=bsr(-1)
error: value out of range.

What is the highest bit of -1 representation depends on how many bits you have. For the sake of universality, fasm gives results of calculations that are consistent with an unbounded number of bits (in the manual I also define this as computation on 2-adic numbers, see my video series for detailed explanation), and BSR of -1 is then meaningless, because infinite series of ones does not have the highest one.

If you know your maximum size, just mask it out before the calculation:

Code:

A = bsr((-1) and 0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFh)

In case of fasmg, you can use mask of any length (making bsr(-1) larger an larger).

CandyMan wrote:

Code:

macro IsPower V
{
  A = bsf(V)
  B = bsr(V)
if A=B
  display 'IsPowerOf2'
end if
}

V = -1

IsPower V

There are other options:

Code:

macro IsPower V
{
if V=1 shl bsf(V)
  display 'IsPowerOf2'
end if
}

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CandyMan 14 Dec 2022, 11:49

I understood. Thanks for the explanation.

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