Re: [Dotgnu-libjit] [Patch] Type conversion bug

[Kevin Kelley]

On 10/13/2010 4:53 PM, Michele Tartara wrote:
> 2010/10/13 Klaus Treichel<address@hidden>:
> > Hi Michele,
> [...]
> > This is not a bug.
> > In libjit we follow the C conversion standard.
> > So the sign extension or zero extension depends on the source type for a
> > widening conversion.
> > A signed 32bit is always sign extended to 64bit even if the target type
> > is unsigned.
>
> Mmmh... I'm sorry, but I do not agree.
>
> I have an int32 with value 0xffffffff that has to be converted to a uint64.
[...]

You have an int, so its "value" is -1, no?  So...
  0x10000000000000000 + (-1) = 0xFFFFffffFFFFffff.
How I'd read it, anyway.

cheers,
Kevin