--- a/SmallInteger.st	Tue Nov 17 11:31:37 2015 +0100
+++ b/SmallInteger.st	Tue Nov 17 12:09:20 2015 +0100
@@ -1123,9 +1123,10 @@
 
 #   ifdef ALGORIHTM_3
     // the fastest, but hard (impossible) to understand (google for fastest bit count)
+    unsigned INT _self = __intVal(self);
+
 #    if __POINTER_SIZE__ == 8
     unsigned int _v1, _v2;
-    unsigned INT _self = __intVal(self);
 
     _v1 = _self & 0xFFFFFFFF;
     _v1 = _v1 - ((_v1 >> 1) & 0x55555555);