1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" Chris Torek. 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)ffs.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/19/94 35.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/string/ffs.3,v 1.3.2.2 2001/12/14 18:33:59 ru Exp $ 36.\" $DragonFly: src/lib/libc/string/ffs.3,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:26:46 dillon Exp $ 37.\" 38.Dd April 19, 1994 39.Dt FFS 3 40.Os 41.Sh NAME 42.Nm ffs 43.Nd find first bit set in a bit string 44.Sh LIBRARY 45.Lb libc 46.Sh SYNOPSIS 47.In string.h 48.Ft int 49.Fn ffs "int value" 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Fn ffs 53function finds the first bit set in 54.Fa value 55and returns the index of that bit. 56Bits are numbered starting from 1, starting at the right-most 57bit. 58A return value of 0 means that the argument was zero. 59.Sh SEE ALSO 60.Xr bitstring 3 61.Sh HISTORY 62The 63.Fn ffs 64function appeared in 65.Bx 4.3 . 66