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hoffis / ipow.c
Created July 27, 2017 08:53 — forked from orlp/ipow.c
int64_t ipow(int64_t base, uint8_t exp) {
static const uint8_t highest_bit_set[] = {
0, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3,
4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4,
5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,
5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6,
6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 255, // anything past 63 is a guaranteed overflow with base > 1