From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:55:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Conversion between different types on IA-64
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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