[Support] Add some helpers to generate bitmasks.
Frequently you you want a bitmask consisting of a specified number of 1s, either at the beginning or end of a word. The naive way to do this is to write template<typename T> T leadingBitMask(unsigned N) { return (T(1) << N) - 1; } but using this function you cannot produce a word with every bit set to 1 (i.e. leadingBitMask<uint8_t>(8)) because left shift is undefined when N is greater than or equal to the number of bits in the word. This patch provides an efficient, branch-free implementation that works for all values of N in [0, CHAR_BIT*sizeof(T)] Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32212 llvm-svn: 300710
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