If memory serves me right, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > Hmm... I guess I can only quote the ECMA spec here ... > > conv.i1 Convert to int8, pushing int32 on stack > > > truncate to [-128..127]? And why the push?
IL is a fully stack language ... pop int32, trunc, push int8 ... Yes, truncate is the required operation . I guess sign-extension is also present for up conversion ... > What is the behaviour on overflow? *.ovf suffixed instructions like (conv.i1.ovf) exist seperately .. but that could be remedied by an explicit check ? ... > Datatypes bigger then INTVAL would need a PMC as storage. Ok. Otherwise this would complicate register handling ? (jvm allocates 2 adjacent local variables for a long and double .. *yow*) Gopal -- The difference between insanity and genius is measured by success
