What's the instructions for type casting in Intel 64 ISA?
Such as cast long int to double?
I do some test like this:
$ cat type_cast.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
long int a = 8l;
double b;
b = (double)a;
printf("%f", b);
return 0;
}
$ gcc -O0 -g -Wall type_cast.c -o type_cast
$ objdump -S type_cast
The part for main is:
int main()
{
4004c4: 55 push %rbp
4004c5: 48 89 e5 mov %rsp,%rbp
4004c8: 48 83 ec 10 sub $0x10,%rsp
long int a = 8l;
4004cc: 48 c7 45 f8 08 00 00 movq $0x8,-0x8(%rbp)
4004d3: 00
double b;
b = (double)a;
4004d4: f2 48 0f 2a 45 f8 cvtsi2sdq -0x8(%rbp),%xmm0
4004da: f2 0f 11 45 f0 movsd %xmm0,-0x10(%rbp)
printf("%f", b);
4004df: b8 f8 05 40 00 mov $0x4005f8,%eax
4004e4: f2 0f 10 45 f0 movsd -0x10(%rbp),%xmm0
4004e9: 48 89 c7 mov %rax,%rdi
4004ec: b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%eax
4004f1: e8 c2 fe ff ff callq 4003b8 <printf@plt>
return 0;
4004f6: b8 00 00 00 00 mov $0x0,%eax
}
It uses cvtsi2sdq -0x8(%rbp),%xmm0 and movsd %xmm0,-0x10(%rbp) to cast from long int to double.
I am wondering what's the other methods usually used in Intel 64 ISA.
You might not find much else as SIMD has become quite well-implemented. Naturally, you will have the packed variant (cvtpi2pd) for multiple simultaneous conversions but this is likely not what you are asking.
Your only real alternative would be the fildl
/fstpl
pair which will load your long int in the x87 floating point stack and then read it back out onto your stack.