bytecodealliance / bytecodealliance/wasmtime
Cranelift: Accept unsigned immediate type for unsigned immediate instructions
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- Rust
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Description
This would avoid a lot of casts.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start in the Cranelift instruction definitions and operand type handling; the issue does not identify specific files or tests. Trace how unsigned immediate instructions currently require casts, then determine the affected cases and verify that they accept unsigned immediate types without those casts using the relevant Cranelift tests.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100