2011 Khronos Group
bitCount 3G
bitCount counts the number of 1 bits in an integer

## Declaration

genIType `bitCount` genIType value genIType `bitCount` genUType value

## Parameters

value

  Specifies the value whose bits to count.

## Description

`bitCount` returns the number of bits that are set to 1 in the binary representation of value.

## Version Support

#VARTABLECOLS#
#FUNCTABLEHEADER#
bitCount#newin40#

## See Also

findLSB, findMSB

## Copyright

Copyright 2011 Khronos Group. This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999. http://opencontent.org/openpub/.