64-bit masks

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Hi I'm writing a shared library and have a two part question:

1. What is the correct (portable?) way of specifying 64-bit constants?

If I need a 64-bit constant set to all 1s, will the following work on all  
systems

unit64_t num = 0xffffffffffffffffULL;


2. I have an array of 64 objects that I need to keep track of. I keep  
their state (i.e. busy/free) in a 64-bit mask, 1 for busy, 0 for free.

unit64_t state;

Each object has an id, from 0 to 63. The bit position in the 'state' mask  
corresponds to object's id. So if object with id=5 becomes busy, it sets  
bit 5 in 'state' variable to 1.

Multiple objects can be busy/free at the same time. I need a fast way to  
look at the 'sate' variable and tell which objects are busy, or free.  
Below is one algorithm I came up with, can anyone suggest something faster?


uint64_t current_state = state;

for(i=0; i<64; i++)
{
        current_state >>= i;

        if(current_state == (0xffffffffffffffffULL >> i))
                break; /* all objects are busy */

        if((current_state & 0x1U) == 0)
                printf("object %d is free\n", i);
        
}