Tag
sign-extension
- Jul 2, 2026 Immediate Encoding and How Arbitrary Constants Get Materialized Why an instruction can hold only a small constant, how sign extension and scaled fields are packed into the word, and the instruction sequences that build a full-width value. computer architecture
- Jan 5, 2026 Integer Object Representation and Conversion at the Boundary How signed and unsigned values are stored, what integer promotion silently does to an operand, and which conversions are defined, implementation-defined, or undefined. systems programming