[RFC]: add C implementation for `number/uint32/base/to-int32`

[gunjjoshi]

Description

This RFC proposes adding C implementation for number/uint32/base/to-int32.

This is a pre-requisite for the C implementation of stdlib/math/base/special/pow.

Related Issues

Related issues #649.

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[gunjjoshi]

What can be a suitable function signature for this ? cc: @kgryte

[kgryte]

@gunjjoshi FYI: pow is already in-flight. See https://github.com/stdlib-js/stdlib/pull/1739.

[gunjjoshi]

Thanks for pointing this out @kgryte. We can close this issue then.

[kgryte]

I'm not sure this implementation is strictly necessary atm. In C, one can simply do

uint32_t v1 = 4;

// ...

int32_t v2 = (int32_t)v1;

We added the JS package to provide a functional API for "casting", given that JS does not have static types, as in C.

Nevertheless, I think we can keep this open, but this is not high priority and we can revisit later on.

[gunjjoshi]

Sounds good. Thanks for explaining this.

[Akshat-Kob]

i want to work on this issue, if it has not been assigned to someone.