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		ac42 on June 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time ... > It should be noted that on processors that do not support LZCNT, the instruction byte encoding is executed as BSR. This. Boggles.

bombcar on June 17, 2021 [–]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/43443701 - interesting - it seems to be a side effect of changing meaning of an instruction.

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