Change the return type of converttoint and document the semantics
The roundtoint and converttoint internal functions are only called with small values, so 32 bit result is enough for converttoint and it is a signed int conversion so the natural return type is int32_t. The original idea was to help the compiler keeping the result in uint64_t, then it's clear that no sign extension is needed and there is no accidental undefined or implementation defined signed int arithmetics. But it turns out gcc does a good job with inlining so changing the type has no overhead and the semantics of the conversion is less surprising this way. Since we want to allow the asuint64 (x + 0x1.8p52) style conversion, the top bits were never usable and the existing code ensures that only the bottom 32 bits of the conversion result are used.
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