chaitanyav wrote:

> > > > Typically we don't bother to implement these unless libc starts using 
> > > > these, or needs them. Making builtins for these functions without the 
> > > > library needs them is kinda silly.
> > > > DO we have a request for these coming from the libc maintainers?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I think they're important for two reasons: 1) we're going to want 
> > > constexpr support for these for the same reason we want constexpr support 
> > > for `strlen` in C so defining them as recognized library builtins is the 
> > > way we do that, and 2) I think libc is going to want to have full support 
> > > for bit-precise integer types and that's easier to support from a builtin 
> > > currently. That said, CC @michaelrj-google for additional opinions
> > 
> > 
> > From the libc side having these builtins would be handy for both of the 
> > reasons Aaron mentioned. For optimization it would be helpful if the 
> > compiler could replace the libcall with a builtin, since things like 
> > `leading_zeros` can sometimes be reduced to a single instruction. Actually 
> > calling these bit functions as functions is unlikely to be optimal. CC: 
> > @enh-google
> 
> We also should run this through our test suites to see if there is any 
> discrepancy, or missing tests for edge cases.

@enh-google I have added those tests to the patch. Also, have verified the 
outputs with gcc.

```
╰─ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/15.2.1/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure 
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,d,fortran,go,lto,m2,objc,obj-c++,rust,cobol 
--enable-bootstrap --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--with-bugurl=https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gcc/-/issues
 --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto --with-linker-hash-style=gnu 
--with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-cet=auto 
--enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie 
--enable-default-ssp --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object 
--enable-libstdcxx-backtrace --enable-link-serialization=1 
--enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-multilib --enable-plugin 
--enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch 
--disable-werror
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 15.2.1 20260209 (GCC)
```

[stdbit_result.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/26636938/stdbit_result.txt)


https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/185978
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