假设你有一个好的编译器&它可以做bit twiddling在这一点上我以上，但无论如何这是工作!!

    // http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLogObvious
    #define SH1(v)  ((v-1) | ((v-1) >> 1))            // accidently came up w/ this...
    #define SH2(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 2))
    #define SH4(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 4))
    #define SH8(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 8))
    #define SH16(v) ((v) | ((v) >> 16))
    #define OP(v) (SH16(SH8(SH4(SH2(SH1(v))))))         

    #define CB0(v)   ((v) - (((v) >> 1) & 0x55555555))
    #define CB1(v)   (((v) & 0x33333333) + (((v) >> 2) & 0x33333333))
    #define CB2(v)   ((((v) + ((v) >> 4) & 0xF0F0F0F) * 0x1010101) >> 24)
    #define CBSET(v) (CB2(CB1(CB0((v)))))
    #define FLOG2(v) (CBSET(OP(v)))

测试代码如下:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

// http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLogObvious
#define SH1(v)  ((v-1) | ((v-1) >> 1))  // accidently guess this...
#define SH2(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 2))
#define SH4(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 4))
#define SH8(v)  ((v) | ((v) >> 8))
#define SH16(v) ((v) | ((v) >> 16))
#define OP(v) (SH16(SH8(SH4(SH2(SH1(v))))))         

#define CB0(v)   ((v) - (((v) >> 1) & 0x55555555))
#define CB1(v)   (((v) & 0x33333333) + (((v) >> 2) & 0x33333333))
#define CB2(v)   ((((v) + ((v) >> 4) & 0xF0F0F0F) * 0x1010101) >> 24)
#define CBSET(v) (CB2(CB1(CB0((v)))))
#define FLOG2(v) (CBSET(OP(v))) 

#define SZ4         FLOG2(4)
#define SZ6         FLOG2(6)
#define SZ7         FLOG2(7)
#define SZ8         FLOG2(8) 
#define SZ9         FLOG2(9)
#define SZ16        FLOG2(16)
#define SZ17        FLOG2(17)
#define SZ127       FLOG2(127)
#define SZ1023      FLOG2(1023)
#define SZ1024      FLOG2(1024)
#define SZ2_17      FLOG2((1ul << 17))  // 
#define SZ_LOG2     FLOG2(SZ)

#define DBG_PRINT(x) do { std::printf("Line:%-4d" "  %10s = %-10d\n", __LINE__, #x, x); } while(0);

uint32_t arrTble[FLOG2(63)];

int main(){
    int8_t n;

    DBG_PRINT(SZ4);    
    DBG_PRINT(SZ6);    
    DBG_PRINT(SZ7);    
    DBG_PRINT(SZ8);    
    DBG_PRINT(SZ9); 
    DBG_PRINT(SZ16);
    DBG_PRINT(SZ17);
    DBG_PRINT(SZ127);
    DBG_PRINT(SZ1023);
    DBG_PRINT(SZ1024);
    DBG_PRINT(SZ2_17);

    return(0);
}

输出:

Line:39           SZ4 = 2
Line:40           SZ6 = 3
Line:41           SZ7 = 3
Line:42           SZ8 = 3
Line:43           SZ9 = 4
Line:44          SZ16 = 4
Line:45          SZ17 = 5
Line:46         SZ127 = 7
Line:47        SZ1023 = 10
Line:48        SZ1024 = 10
Line:49        SZ2_16 = 17

/*
** http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#IntegerLog
*/
#define __LOG2A(s) ((s &0xffffffff00000000) ? (32 +__LOG2B(s >>32)): (__LOG2B(s)))
#define __LOG2B(s) ((s &0xffff0000)         ? (16 +__LOG2C(s >>16)): (__LOG2C(s)))
#define __LOG2C(s) ((s &0xff00)             ? (8  +__LOG2D(s >>8)) : (__LOG2D(s)))
#define __LOG2D(s) ((s &0xf0)               ? (4  +__LOG2E(s >>4)) : (__LOG2E(s)))
#define __LOG2E(s) ((s &0xc)                ? (2  +__LOG2F(s >>2)) : (__LOG2F(s)))
#define __LOG2F(s) ((s &0x2)                ? (1)                  : (0))

#define LOG2_UINT64 __LOG2A
#define LOG2_UINT32 __LOG2B
#define LOG2_UINT16 __LOG2C
#define LOG2_UINT8  __LOG2D

static inline uint64_t
next_power_of_2(uint64_t i)
{
#if defined(__GNUC__)
    return 1UL <<(1 +(63 -__builtin_clzl(i -1)));
#else
    i =i -1;
    i =LOG2_UINT64(i);
    return 1UL <<(1 +i);
#endif
}

如果你不想冒险进入未定义行为的领域，输入值必须在1到2^63之间。宏在编译时设置常量也很有用。

g++编译器提供了一个内置函数__builtin_clz，用于计算前导零:

所以我们可以这样做:

int nextPowerOfTwo(unsigned int x) {
  return 1 << sizeof(x)*8 - __builtin_clz(x);
}

int main () {
  std::cout << nextPowerOfTwo(7)  << std::endl;
  std::cout << nextPowerOfTwo(31) << std::endl;
  std::cout << nextPowerOfTwo(33) << std::endl;
  std::cout << nextPowerOfTwo(8)  << std::endl;
  std::cout << nextPowerOfTwo(91) << std::endl;
  
  return 0;
}

结果:

8
32
64
16
128

但请注意，对于x == 0， __builtin_clz return是未定义的。

将保罗·迪克森的答案应用到Excel中，效果非常好。

 =POWER(2,CEILING.MATH(LOG(A1)/LOG(2)))

import sys


def is_power2(x):
    return x > 0 and ((x & (x - 1)) == 0)


def find_nearest_power2(x):
    if x <= 0:
        raise ValueError("invalid input")
    if is_power2(x):
        return x
    else:
        bits = get_bits(x)
        upper = 1 << (bits)
        lower = 1 << (bits - 1)
        mid = (upper + lower) // 2
        if (x - mid) > 0:
            return upper
        else:
            return lower


def get_bits(x):
    """return number of bits in binary representation"""
    if x < 0:
        raise ValueError("invalid input: input should be positive integer")
    count = 0
    while (x != 0):
        try:
            x = x >> 1
        except TypeError as error:
            print(error, "input should be of type integer")
            sys.exit(1)
        count += 1
    return count

next = pow(2, ceil(log(x)/log(2)));

这是通过找到你想要2乘以x的数字来实现的(取这个数字的对数，然后除以想要的底数的对数，详见维基百科)。然后把它四舍五入，得到最接近的整数幂。

这是一个比其他地方链接的按位方法更通用的方法(即更慢!)，但很好地了解数学，不是吗?