Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, Second Edition

Name

conv_*

Synopsis

conv_i1     DEST, VAL
conv_i1_ovf DEST, VAL
               

Convert value to integer or number of given type i1, i2, i4, i8, u1, u2, u4, r4, r8. i corresponds to a signed integer, u to an unsigned integer, and r to a float; the number indicates the size (in bytes) of the type. The variants with _ovf throw an exception if the conversion would overflow.