Count number of bits in a 64-bit (long, big) integer?

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Published on 2010-04-25T18:46:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 18:53 UTC
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I have read through this SO question about 32-bits, but what about 64-bit numbers? Should I just mask the upper and lower 4 bytes, perform the count on the 32-bits and then add them together?

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