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We use __fls() to find the most significant bit. Using that, the loop can be avoided. A second trick is to use the behaviour of the rotate instructions to expand the range of the unsigned int to float conversion to the full 32 bits in a branchless way. The routine is now exact up to 2^24. Above that, we truncate which is equivalent to rounding towards zero. Signed-off-by: Steven Fuerst <svfuerst@gmail.com>