What Does an * (Star) Mean in Front of a CSS Declaration

What does a star-preceded property mean in CSS?

This is the "star property hack" along the same lines as the "underscore hack." It includes junk before the property that IE ignores (the * works up to IE 7, the _ up to IE 6).

What does the * sign mean before a css attribute?

It applies the property value to IE7 and below. It's also invalid CSS. See http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks#unrecommended-asterisk_prefix.

You should consider conditional comments instead.

Bit reversal of an integer, ignoring integer size and endianness

#include<stdio.h>
#include<limits.h>

#define TYPE_BITS sizeof(TYPE)*CHAR_BIT

typedef unsigned long TYPE;

TYPE reverser(TYPE n)
{
    TYPE nrev = 0, i, bit1, bit2;
    int count;

    for(i = 0; i < TYPE_BITS; i += 2)
    {
        /*In each iteration, we  swap one bit on the 'right half' 
        of the number with another on the left half*/

        count = TYPE_BITS - i - 1;  /*this is used to find how many positions 
                                    to the left (and right) we gotta move 
                                    the bits in this iteration*/

        bit1 = n & (1<<(i/2)); /*Extract 'right half' bit*/
        bit1 <<= count;         /*Shift it to where it belongs*/

        bit2 = n & 1<<((i/2) + count);  /*Find the 'left half' bit*/
        bit2 >>= count;         /*Place that bit in bit1's original position*/

        nrev |= bit1;   /*Now add the bits to the reversal result*/
        nrev |= bit2;
    }
    return nrev;
}

int main()
{
    TYPE n = 6;

    printf("%lu", reverser(n));
    return 0;
}

This time I've used the 'number of bits' idea from TK, but made it somewhat more portable by not assuming a byte contains 8 bits and instead using the CHAR_BIT macro. The code is more efficient now (with the inner for loop removed). I hope the code is also slightly less cryptic this time. :)

The need for using count is that the number of positions by which we have to shift a bit varies in each iteration - we have to move the rightmost bit by 31 positions (assuming 32 bit number), the second rightmost bit by 29 positions and so on. Hence count must decrease with each iteration as i increases.

Hope that bit of info proves helpful in understanding the code...

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