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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: (len % 1) != 0
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"Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:

> On 19 February 2008 16:30, Sheng-Liang Song wrote:
>
>> or
>> 
>>  (len  & 1) != 0   <=>  (len % 2) != 0
>> 
>
>   That would have the advantage of not requiring a divide operation :)

The divide operation is already required and can be combined with the
modulo operation.

And this is by no means performance critical.

Andreas.

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