Everything about Find first set
Family of related bitwise operations on machine words
In computer software and hardware, find first set (ffs) or find first one is a bit operation which returns the index or position of the least significant 'one' bit in its argument, counting from the least significant bit. A related operation is count trailing zeros (ctz) or number of trailing zeros (ntz), which counts the number of zero bits following the least significant one bit. There are two common variants of find first set, the POSIX definition which starts indexing of bits at 1, herein labelled ffs, and the variant which starts indexing of bits at zero, which is equivalent to ctz. Wikipedia →
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