[llvm-dev] What should a truncating store do?

[Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev]

On 9/15/2017 5:49 AM, Jon Chesterfield via llvm-dev wrote:
> For example, truncating store of an i32 to i6. My assumption was that 
> this should write the low six bits of the i32 to somewhere in memory.
>
> Should the top 24 bits of a corresponding 32 bit region of memory be 
> unchanged, zero,  undefined?

Unchanged.

> Should the two bits that would round the i6 up to a byte be preserved, 
> zero, undefined?

Zero.  Legalization will normally handle this for you, though, by 
transforming it to an i8 store.

-Eli

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