> :-) Apple has one of these sorts of creatures. You can see the code > in the Apple tree, marked by APPLE LOCAL {begin ,end ,}bitfield > reversal. Your code looks much nicer than the Apple code, I hope it > works as well.
Amusingly enough, the patch was based on an earlier patch I had lying around - from 2003. 8 years is a long time for such a small change!