From: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Conversion between different types on IA-64
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:55:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105953748000656@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105951522415896@msgid-missing>
On 30 Jul 2003, CH Gowri Kumar <gkumar@csa.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone point me to a source of how to convert from a
> wider size to narrow size (long to int, int to char etc.) on IA-64?
>
> For the other way round(narrow to wider), I could find SXT(sign extend)
> and ZXT(zero extend) instructions.
>
> gcc seems(but not sure) to be storing the original value and loading it
> using the appropriate LD* instruction.
In C just a cast ought to do it.
In asm it seems like you can either ST and then LD4/LD2/LD1, or use
AND or EXTR.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding your question.
--
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-30 3:55 UTC|newest]
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2003-07-29 21:54 Conversion between different types on IA-64 CH Gowri Kumar
2003-07-30 3:55 ` Martin Pool [this message]
2003-07-30 10:20 ` CH Gowri Kumar
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