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| author | Simon Heath <icefox@dreamquest.io> | 2022-06-25 17:08:42 -0400 |
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| committer | Quentin Carbonneaux <quentin@c9x.me> | 2022-06-29 22:55:16 +0200 |
| commit | 790aedb8fef1164bcfe262b566fc58dd665edf9c (patch) | |
| tree | 8b6181e15ab0a19e1dd1938c71891d3733d7c120 /doc | |
| parent | cd778b44ba11925d65ee10ff29fe22d4a45809dd (diff) | |
| download | roux-790aedb8fef1164bcfe262b566fc58dd665edf9c.tar.gz | |
Fix minor typos in IL doc
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/il.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/il.txt b/doc/il.txt index 288c6ca..308fe45 100644 --- a/doc/il.txt +++ b/doc/il.txt @@ -744,11 +744,11 @@ returns 1 when the first argument is smaller than the second one. ~ Conversions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Conversion operations allow to change the representation of -a value, possibly modifying it if the target type cannot hold -the value of the source type. Conversions can extend the -precision of a temporary (e.g., from signed 8-bit to 32-bit), -or convert a floating point into an integer and vice versa. +Conversion operations change the representation of a value, +possibly modifying it if the target type cannot hold the value +of the source type. Conversions can extend the precision of a +temporary (e.g., from signed 8-bit to 32-bit), or convert a +floating point into an integer and vice versa. * `extsw`, `extuw` -- `l(w)` * `extsh`, `extuh` -- `I(ww)` @@ -766,17 +766,17 @@ or convert a floating point into an integer and vice versa. Extending the precision of a temporary is done using the `ext` family of instructions. Because QBE types do not -precise the signedness (like in LLVM), extension instructions +specify the signedness (like in LLVM), extension instructions exist to sign-extend and zero-extend a value. For example, `extsb` takes a word argument and sign-extends the 8 least-significant bits to a full word or long, depending on the return type. -The instructions `exts` and `truncd` are provided to change -the precision of a floating point value. When the double -argument of `truncd` cannot be represented as a -single-precision floating point, it is truncated towards -zero. +The instructions `exts` (extend single) and `truncd` (truncate +double) are provided to change the precision of a floating +point value. When the double argument of `truncd` cannot +be represented as a single-precision floating point, it is +truncated towards zero. Converting between signed integers and floating points is done using `stosi` (single to signed integer), `stoui` (single to |