Commit ff9f3275de

Shawn Landden <shawn@git.icu>
2019-09-19 01:34:40
docs: clarify @clz and @ctz terminology to not be endian-specific.
This was brought up in IRC a few days ago.
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doc
langref.html.in
doc/langref.html.in
@@ -6650,7 +6650,7 @@ async fn func(y: *i32) void {
       {#header_open|@clz#}
       <pre>{#syntax#}@clz(comptime T: type, integer: T){#endsyntax#}</pre>
       <p>
-      This function counts the number of leading zeroes in {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#}.
+      This function counts the number of most-significant (leading in a big-Endian sense) zeroes in {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#}.
       </p>
       <p>
       If {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#} is known at {#link|comptime#},
@@ -6792,7 +6792,7 @@ test "main" {
       {#header_open|@ctz#}
       <pre>{#syntax#}@ctz(comptime T: type, integer: T){#endsyntax#}</pre>
       <p>
-      This function counts the number of trailing zeroes in {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#}.
+      This function counts the number of least-significant (trailing in a big-Endian sense) zeroes in {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#}.
       </p>
       <p>
       If {#syntax#}integer{#endsyntax#} is known at {#link|comptime#},