RFR: 8257985: count_trailing_zeros doesn't handle 64-bit values on 32-bit JVM [v4]

[Thomas Schatzl]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:35:10 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Re-implement count_trailing_zeros as a template function similar to count_leading_zeros, adding support for 8 and 16 bit types as well as for 64-bit types on 32-bit builds, which is currently not supported. This prohibits implementing the log2i_exact proposed by #1663 using count_trailing_zeros, as suggested during review.
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>> Compared to count_leading_zeros the implementation can be slightly simpler since subword specializations can simply use the internal 32-bit variant.
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>> Windows doesn't define _BitScanForward64 on 32-bit targets, so the 32-bit variant for handling 64-bit values becomes more convoluted.
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> Claes Redestad has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Explicit cast to unsigned

Marked as reviewed by tschatzl (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1747