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From: CH Gowri Kumar <gkumar@csa.iisc.ernet.in>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 10:20:11 +0000
Subject: Re: Conversion between different types on IA-64
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Hi Martin,
> In C just a cast ought to do it.
OOPS! I should have asked it as "IA-64 assembly".

> In asm it seems like you can either ST and then LD4/LD2/LD1, or use
> AND or EXTR.
Seems the instructions extr and extr.u would do the work for signed 
and unsigned forms respectively.

Thanks for the help, Martin.

Regards,
Gowri Kumar