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He might have meant IA-64. The problem is likely to appear on any 64-bit architecture where int is smaller than a pointer, which is most (or all?) of them. Depending on the compiler and such, big discussion below if you're interested in boring details.


inserts big discussion for those interested

https://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2016/05/30/data-model...




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