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Instruction

BSF

Writes the index of the lowest set bit of the source to the destination; a zero source sets ZF and leaves the destination unchanged.

Extensions
Forms
2 (2 Legacy)
Data
Intel XED v2026.08.23

Forms

Every encoding of BSF that Intel XED knows, one row per XED instruction form (iform). How to read the notation.
InstructionEncodingRequires
BSF r16/32/64, m16/32/64 BSF_GPRv_MEMv0F BC /r
F3 0F BC /r (without BMI1)		Base instruction set
BSF r16/32/64, r16/32/64 BSF_GPRv_GPRv0F BC /r
F3 0F BC /r (without BMI1)		Base instruction set

Intrinsics

The C intrinsics of Clang 23.1.2 that compile to BSF, each with the form it compiles to and the Clang options it needs. The forms come from compiling every intrinsic and decoding the result with Intel XED; all intrinsics A–Z explains the method.

IntrinsicCompiles to
_bit_scan_forward int _bit_scan_forward(int A)

BSF r16/32/64, r16/32/64 Legacy

__bsfd int __bsfd(int __A)

BSF r16/32/64, r16/32/64 Legacy

__bsfq int __bsfq(long long __A)

BSF r16/32/64, r16/32/64 Legacy

CPUID and processors

Each form belongs to an XED ISA set. A form can be used when the processor reports every CPUID bit of one of its ISA set's alternatives.

CPUID requirements and processors of the XED ISA sets above. Alternatives are separated by “or”; processors follow XED’s chip model, which covers AMD processors up to Zen 2.
ISA setCPUIDProcessors in XED
I386

No CPUID bit: part of the base instruction set.

Every x86-64 processor in XED’s model

More General-purpose instructions

All 109 General-purpose instructions

Sources

  1. Intel XED v2026.08.23 (commit 0bcb6237345c): forms, encodings, ISA sets, CPUID bits and chip model.
  2. Clang's x86 intrinsic headers, LLVM 23.1.2 (commit 85ac56026243): the intrinsics, their signatures and doc comments, and the Clang of that release, which compiled each of them.
  3. Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2 (325383-092, June 2026)
  4. Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, Volume 2 (325383-093, September 2026)

The tables are derived from Intel XED, Copyright Intel Corporation, licensed under the Apache License 2.0; x86-64.net converted and reformatted them. The intrinsics and their signatures come from Clang, part of the LLVM Project, licensed under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. The text is our own.