Extended Description

I discovered this while staring at Microsoft's platform adaption layer code in ChakraCore: https://github.com/Microsoft/ChakraCore/blob/master/lib/Common/CommonPal.h#L647

__forceinline unsigned char _BitTestAndSet(LONG *_BitBase, int _BitPos)
{

#if defined(clang) && !defined(ARM)
// Clang doesn't expand _bittestandset intrinic to bts, and it's implemention also doesn't work for _BitPos >= 32
unsigned char retval = 0;
asm(
"bts %[_BitPos], %[_BitBase]\n\t"
"setc %b[retval]\n\t"
: [_BitBase] "+m" (*_BitBase), [retval] "+rm" (retval)
: [_BitPos] "ri" (_BitPos)
: "cc" // clobber condition code
);
return retval;
#else
return _bittestandset(_BitBase, _BitPos);
#endif
}

It's a shame that nobody filed this bug upstream. :(

The Intel manual supports confirms this view:
"""
BT—Bit Test
...
Selects the bit in a bit string (specified with the first operand, called the bit base) at the bit-position designated by
the bit offset (specified by the second operand) and stores the value of the bit in the CF flag. The bit base operand
can be a register or a memory location; the bit offset operand can be a register or an immediate value:
• If the bit base operand specifies a register, the instruction takes the modulo 16, 32, or 64 of the bit offset
operand (modulo size depends on the mode and register size; 64-bit operands are available only in 64-bit
mode).
• If the bit base operand specifies a memory location, the operand represents the address of the byte in memory
that contains the bit base (bit 0 of the specified byte) of the bit string. The range of the bit position that can be
referenced by the offset operand depends on the operand size.
See also: Bit(BitBase, BitOffset) on page 3-11.
"""

We either need to codegen this with an intrinsic or inline asm that will reliably select to bts, or we need to do an array indexing operation first.