| From: | Allan Odgaard |
| Date: | 03 Apr 00 at 20:03:05 |
| Subject: | Re: ObtainPen for my colors |
On 04-Apr-00, Duane McDonnell wrote:
> [...] I was just curious as to why you were multiplying by 0x01010101,
> I thought it might be a new trick to add to my collection :-) But I
> gather from your explanation that it was correcting an upper limit [...]1
Well, the upper-limit was one thing and the 0x01010101 was another, which I
myself do consider a neat trick ;-) it's supposed to achieve this:
a |= (a << 24) | (a << 16) | (a << 8);
Regards Allan