ganler edited a comment on pull request #8706: URL: https://github.com/apache/tvm/pull/8706#issuecomment-897311045
@YuchenJin Good question to discuss. As I said a more thorough fix would be supporting `CastNode` in constant folding, but it can be tricky. In this PR, I only made a safe/harmless change by casting lower-bit `uint` constant value to higher-bit `int`. However, when we have, say `int32` and `uint32`, the question is that how should we perform casting? i.e., what is the logic of `op(int32(lhs), uint32(rhs))`? In TVM, we will cast all types to a signed integer with maximum bits (regarding the operands). i.e., `op(int32(lhs), int32(uint32(rhs)))`. But here, `int32(uint32(rhs))` is not `IntImm` but `CastNode`... Then your question would be: shall we directly evaluate the `CastNode` during casting (all so need to change the value of `IntImm`).  -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
