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Expand Up @@ -489,8 +489,8 @@ Since it was accepted, the RFC has been updated as follows:
capability for libstd to declare inherent methods on primitive
integral types.
2. `as` was changed to restore the behavior before the RFC (that is,
it truncates, as a C cast would).

it truncates to the target bitwidth and reinterprets the highest
order bit, a.k.a. sign-bit, as necessary, as a C cast would).

# Acknowledgements and further reading

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