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/*
* This implements the binary GCD algorithm. (Often attributed to Stein,
* but as Knuth has noted, appears in a first-century Chinese math text.)
*
* This is faster than the division-based algorithm even on x86, which
* has decent hardware division.
*/
/* If __ffs is available, the even/odd algorithm benchmarks slower. */
/**
* gcd - calculate and return the greatest common divisor of 2 unsigned longs
* @a: first value
* @b: second value
*/
unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
unsigned long r = a | b;
if (!a || !b)
return r;
b >>= __ffs(b);
if (b == 1)
return r & -r;
for (;;) {
a >>= __ffs(a);
if (a == 1)
return r & -r;
if (a == b)
return a << __ffs(r);
if (a < b)
swap(a, b);
a -= b;
}
}
/* If normalization is done by loops, the even/odd algorithm is a win. */
unsigned long gcd(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
{
unsigned long r = a | b;
if (!a || !b)
return r;
/* Isolate lsbit of r */
r &= -r;
while (!(b & r))
b >>= 1;
if (b == r)
return r;