[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 01/42] gallium/util: add u_bit_scan_consecutive_range

[Marek Olšák]

From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>

---
 src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_math.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_math.h b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_math.h
index 56bd185..7175d1d 100644
--- a/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_math.h
+++ b/src/gallium/auxiliary/util/u_math.h
@@ -483,6 +483,26 @@ u_bit_scan64(uint64_t *mask)
 }
 #endif
 
+/* For looping over a bitmask when you want to loop over consecutive bits
+ * manually, for example:
+ *
+ * while (mask) {
+ *    int start, count, i;
+ *
+ *    u_bit_scan_consecutive_range(&mask, &start, &count);
+ *
+ *    for (i = 0; i < count; i++)
+ *       ... process element (start+i)
+ * }
+ */
+static inline void
+u_bit_scan_consecutive_range(unsigned *mask, int *start, int *count)
+{
+   *start = ffs(*mask) - 1;
+   *count = ffs(~(*mask >> *start)) - 1;
+   *mask &= ~(((1 << *count) - 1) << *start);
+}
+
 /**
  * Return float bits.
  */
-- 
2.1.4