On 27.08.2024 11:49, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 26/08/2024 11:39 am, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 23.08.2024 01:06, Andrew Cooper wrote: >>> They are no more, and won't be returning in this form. >> And what's the plan? Use hweight32((uint8_t)...) in an open-coded manner? >> Not overly nice I would say. > > If we ever regain a genuine need for the 8 or 16 forms, they can go back > into bitops.h, in terms of hweightl(), just like hweight32(). > > But it's been 20 years so far and we haven't actually needed > hweight8/16, and I'm expecting this to continue for the forseeable future.
Well, I'm not fully convinced. People may (try to) add open-coded forms like in my earlier reply instead. But anyway: Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> Jan
