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BsfByte function

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Return the position of the rightmost set bit in an 8-bit value.

Declaration

pascal
function BsfByte(const AValue: Byte): Byte

Description

BsfByte scans the byte AValue, starting at position 0 (rightmost position) and returns the index of the first set bit. The position is measured from the 0-th, rightmost bit.

When the input is 0, the result is 255 (unsigned equivalent of -1).

See also

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.