[LLVMdev] LLVM IR to force floating-point truncation on x87?

[Robison, Arch]

For 32-bit x86 systems using the x87 unit, is there an LLVM code sequence that will force an operand of type float to 32-bit floating-point precision, i.e. dispose of any extra x87 precision?  For Julia, we've been using a volatile store/load sequence that works, but thwarts many optimizations.  Is there a better IR sequence that will force the desired precision?

More context can be found in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41 .

- Arch
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