Previous power of 2

Question

There is a lot of information on how to find the next power of 2 of a given value (see refs) but I cannot find any to get the previous power of two.

The only way I f

Answer 1

What about

if (tt = v >> 16)
{
   r = (t = tt >> 8) ? 0x1000000 * Table256[t] : 0x10000 * Table256[tt];
}
else 
{
  r = (t = v >> 8) ? 0x100 * Table256[t] : Table256[v];
}

It is just modified method from http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLogLookup. This require like 7 operations and it might be faster to replace multiplications whit shift.