> On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:23:19 -0500 > Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Code that fails on 32-bit CPUs is still wrong on 64-bit CPUs. It's >> just a latent bug that we don't notice. > > Not always. For example, some u-blox 64-bit fields that work when stuffed > into 64-bit ints, but lose precision when stuffened into 32-bit ints.
That's wrong! If the field from the device is 64 bits, it's an error to put it in an "int", which the standard does not require to be any particular size. If you need 64 bits, then use int64_t (etc.).
