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Overview of cross-architecture portability problems
Ideally, you’d want your program to work everywhere. Unfortunately, that’s not that simple, even if you’re using high-level “portable” languages such as Python. In thi…
In fact, musl libc unconditionally provides 64-bit types, rendering this problem a relic of the past — and apparently glibc is planning to switch the default in the future as well. Effectively, it may end up hanging randomly (waiting for some wall clock time to pass), not firing events or seeding a PRNG with a constant. As you can probably guess, there is a fair number of programs suffering from issues like that simply because they don’t crash on x86, and it’s easy to silence the normal compiler warnings (e.g. by type punning, as used it in the example).
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