>Yes, but if you cast to long the result will be 32bit again. Or do you
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>rely on it being always used in 64bit signed context with sign extension?
>While that might work it would seem rather fragile to me, just asking
>for similar future bugs.

Even if conversion is to 64-bit unsigned, the value (being signed) will be
sign-extended first (to preserve its value modulo 2**<target type width>).

Jan

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