stretch mask - bit manipulation - c++

Question

I want to stretch a mask in which every bit represents 4 bits of stretched mask.
I am looking for an elegant bit manipulation to stretch using c++ and systemC
for example:
input:
mask (32 bits) = 0x0000CF00
output:
stretched mask (128 bits) = 0x00000000 00000000 FF00FFFF 00000000
and just to clarify the example let's look at the the byte C:
0xC = 1100 after stretching: 1111111100000000 = 0xFF00

Answer 1

Do this in a elegant form is not easy.
The simple mode maybe is create a loop with shift bit
sc_biguint<128> result = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < 32; i++){
if(bit_test(var, i)){
result +=0x0F;
}
result << 4;
}

Answer 2

Here's a way of stretching a 16-bit mask into 64 bits where every bit represents 4 bits of stretched mask:
uint64_t x = 0x000000000000CF00LL;
x = (x | (x << 24)) & 0x000000ff000000ffLL;
x = (x | (x << 12)) & 0x000f000f000f000fLL;
x = (x | (x << 6)) & 0x0303030303030303LL;
x = (x | (x << 3)) & 0x1111111111111111LL;
x |= x << 1;
x |= x << 2;
It starts of with the mask in the bottom 16 bits. Then it moves the top 8 bits of the mask into the top 32 bits, like this:
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP
becomes
0000000000000000 00000000ABCDEFGH 0000000000000000 00000000IJKLMNOP
Then it solves the similar problem of stretching a mask from the bottom 8 bits of a 32 bit word, to the top and bottom 32-bits simultaneously:
000000000000ABCD 000000000000EFGH 000000000000IJKL 000000000000MNOP
Then it does it for 4 bits inside 16 and so on until the bits are spread out:
000A000B000C000D 000E000F000G000H 000I000J000K000L 000M000N000O000P
Then it "smears" them across 4 bits by ORing the result with itself twice:
AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD EEEEFFFFGGGGHHHH IIIIJJJJKKKKLLLL MMMMNNNNOOOOPPPP
You could extend this to 128 bits by adding an extra first step where you shift by 48 bits and mask with a 128-bit constant:
x = (x | (x << 48)) & 0x000000000000ffff000000000000ffffLLL;
You'd also have to stretch the other constants out to 128 bits just by repeating the bit patterns. However (as far as I know) there is no way to declare a 128-bit constant in C++, but perhaps you could do it with macros or something (see this question). You could also make a 128-bit version just by using the 64-bit version on the top and bottom 16 bits separately.
If loading the masking constants turns out to be a difficulty or bottleneck you can generate each one from the previous one using shifting and masking:
uint64_t m = 0x000000ff000000ffLL;
m &= m >> 4; m |= m << 16; // gives 0x000f000f000f000fLL
m &= m >> 2; m |= m << 8; // gives 0x0303030303030303LL
m &= m >> 1; m |= m << 4; // gives 0x1111111111111111LL

Answer 3

Does this work for you?
#include <stdio.h>
long long Stretch4x(int input)
{
long long output = 0;
while (input & -input)
{
int b = (input & -input);
long long s = 0;
input &= ~b;
s = b*15;
while(b>>=1)
{
s <<= 3;
}
output |= s;
}
return output;
}
int main(void) {
int input = 0xCF00;
printf("0x%0x ==> 0x%0llx\n", input, Stretch4x(input));
return 0;
}
Output:
0xcf00 ==> 0xff00ffff00000000

Answer 4

The other solutions are good. However, most them are more C than C++. This solution is pretty straight forward: it uses std::bitset and set four bits for each input bit.
#include <bitset>
#include <iostream>
std::bitset<128>
starch_32 (const std::bitset<32> &input)
{
std::bitset<128> output;
for (size_t i = 0; i < input.size(); ++i) {
// If `input[N]` is `true`, set `output[N*4, N*4+4]` to true.
if (input.test (i)) {
const size_t output_index = i * 4;
output.set (output_index);
output.set (output_index + 1);
output.set (output_index + 2);
output.set (output_index + 3);
}
}
return output;
}
// Example with 0xC.
int main() {
std::bitset<32> input{0b1100};
auto result = starch_32 (input);
std::cout << "0x" << std::hex << result.to_ullong() << "\n";
}
Try it online!

Answer 5

On x86 you could use the PDEP intrinsic to move the 16 mask bits into the correct nibble (into the low bit of each nibble, for example) of a 64-bit word, and then use a couple of shift + or to smear them into the rest of the word:
unsigned long x = _pdep_u64(m, 0x1111111111111111);
x |= x << 1;
x |= x << 2;
You could also replace those two OR and two shift by a single multiplication by 0xF which accomplishes the same smearing.
Finally, you could consider a SIMD approach: solutions such as samgak's above should map naturally to SIMD.