Add a note that specifies that the whether or not sign extension is done by
a cast is determined by the source operand.
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a C '<tt>if</tt>' condition is converted to the boolean '<tt>true</tt>' values,
all else are '<tt>false</tt>'.<p>
+When extending an integral value from a type of one signness to another (for
+example '<tt>sbyte</tt>' to '<tt>ulong</tt>'), the value is sign-extended if the
+<b>source</b> value is signed, and zero-extended if the source value is
+unsigned.<p>
+
<h5>Example:</h5>
<pre>
%X = cast int 257 to ubyte <i>; yields ubyte:1</i>
@@ -1736,7 +1741,7 @@
<address><a href="mailto:sabre@nondot.org">Chris Lattner</a></address>
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