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I was looking at "trunc" to downcast a signed integer, say sint32 to sint16, but it seems to handle unsigned integers only. How do you downcast a signed integer? P.S. This question is for my "Mapping High-Level Constructs to LLVM IR" document :-) -- Mikael -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hello > I was looking at "trunc" to downcast a signed integer, say sint32 to sint16, > but it seems to handle unsigned integers only. No. In twos-complement notation (which LLVM assumes) there no difference between signed and unsigned truncation - you just throw out the spare sign bits and that's all. Please note that that the "numbers" in LLVM IR is neither signed