When an int is cast to a short and truncated, how is the new value determined?

Question

Can someone clarify what happens when an integer is cast to a short in C? I\'m using Raspberry Pi, so I\'m aware that an int is 32 bits, and theref

Answer 1

sx value will be the same as 2 least significant bytes of x, in this case it will be 0x8642 which (if interpreted as 16 bit signed integer) gives -31166 in decimal.