mpi-bit.c

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/* mpi-bit.c  -  MPI bit level fucntions
 * Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 *
 * This file is part of GnuPG.
 *
 * GnuPG is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
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 */

#include "mpi-internal.h"
#include "longlong.h"

#define A_LIMB_1 ((mpi_limb_t) 1)

/****************
 * Sometimes we have MSL (most significant limbs) which are 0;
 * this is for some reasons not good, so this function removes them.
 */
void mpi_normalize(MPI a)
{
    for (; a->nlimbs && !a->d[a->nlimbs - 1]; a->nlimbs--)
        ;
}

/****************
 * Return the number of bits in A.
 */
unsigned mpi_get_nbits(MPI a)
{
    unsigned n;

    mpi_normalize(a);

    if (a->nlimbs) {
        mpi_limb_t alimb = a->d[a->nlimbs - 1];
        if (alimb)
            n = count_leading_zeros(alimb);
        else
            n = BITS_PER_MPI_LIMB;
        n = BITS_PER_MPI_LIMB - n + (a->nlimbs - 1) * BITS_PER_MPI_LIMB;
    } else
        n = 0;
    return n;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mpi_get_nbits);