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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2006-04-29 16:16:07 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2006-04-29 16:16:07 +0000
commit0d55cb358fb042ef1066fa6dd043930ee430f5ef (patch)
treeaaf8ea32b322e7367c8c54254e87d6c273cf94c8 /lib/gcd.c
parent9c10119cfaf80c032f27f3e1cfcf6c97ee79599d (diff)
downloadgnulib-0d55cb358fb042ef1066fa6dd043930ee430f5ef.tar.gz
Make generic.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/gcd.c')
-rw-r--r--lib/gcd.c16
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/gcd.c b/lib/gcd.c
index 9c46985545..96f556bb22 100644
--- a/lib/gcd.c
+++ b/lib/gcd.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Arithmetic.
- Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2001.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -16,14 +16,20 @@
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
+/* This file can also be used to define gcd functions for other unsigned
+ types, such as 'unsigned long long' or 'uintmax_t'. */
+#ifndef WORD_T
/* Specification. */
-#include "gcd.h"
+# include "gcd.h"
+# define WORD_T unsigned long
+# define GCD gcd
+#endif
#include <stdlib.h>
/* Return the greatest common divisor of a > 0 and b > 0. */
-unsigned long
-gcd (unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
+WORD_T
+GCD (WORD_T a, WORD_T b)
{
/* Why no division, as in Euclid's algorithm? Because in Euclid's algorithm
the division result floor(a/b) or floor(b/a) is very often = 1 or = 2,
@@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ gcd (unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
bit in a single instruction, and the algorithm uses fewer variables than
Euclid's algorithm. */
- unsigned long c = a | b;
+ WORD_T c = a | b;
c = c ^ (c - 1);
/* c = largest power of 2 that divides a and b. */