对于IEEE浮点，你可以这样做。

int next_power_of_two(float a_F){
    int f = *(int*)&a_F;
    int b = f << 9 != 0; // If we're a power of two this is 0, otherwise this is 1

    f >>= 23; // remove factional part of floating point number
    f -= 127; // subtract 127 (the bias) from the exponent

    // adds one to the exponent if were not a power of two, 
    // then raises our new exponent to the power of two again.
    return (1 << (f + b)); 
}

如果你需要一个整数的解决方案，并且你能够使用内联汇编，BSR会在x86上给你一个整数的log2。它计算有多少位是正确的，这正好等于这个数字的log2。其他处理器(通常)有类似的指令，比如CLZ，根据你的编译器，可能有一个内在的可用指令来为你做这项工作。

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

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?

尽管问题标注为c，我的5分钱。幸运的是，c++ 20将包含std::ceil2和std::floor2(参见这里)。它是consexpr模板函数，目前的GCC实现使用位移位和工作于任何整型无符号类型。

为了完整起见，这里是用标准C语言实现的浮点数。

double next_power_of_two(double value) {
    int exp;
    if(frexp(value, &exp) == 0.5) {
        // Omit this case to round precise powers of two up to the *next* power
        return value;
    }
    return ldexp(1.0, exp);
}

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