When you use Visual C++ to create applications to run on a 64-bit Windows operating system, you should be aware of the following issues:
An int and a long are 32-bit values on 64-bit Windows operating systems. For programs that you plan to compile for 64-bit platforms, you should be careful not to assign pointers to 32-bit variables. Pointers are 64-bit on 64-bit platforms, and you will truncate the pointer value if you assign it to a 32-bit variable.
size_t, time_t, and ptrdiff_t are 64-bit values on 64-bit Windows operating systems.
time_t is a 32-bit value on 32-bit Windows operating systems in Visual C++ versions before Visual C++ 2005. In Visual C++ 2005 and later, time_t is a 64-bit integer by default. For more information, see Time Management.
You should be aware of where your code takes an int value and processes it as a size_t or time_t value. It is possible that the number could grow to be larger than a 32-bit number and data will be truncated when it is passed back to the int storage.
The %x (hex int format) printf modifier will not work as expected on a 64-bit Windows operating system. It will only operate on the first 32 bits of the value that is passed to it.
Use %I32x to display an integer on a Windows 32-bit operating system.
Use %I64x to display an integer on a Windows 64-bit operating system.
The %p (hex format for a pointer) will work as expected on a 64-bit Windows operating system.
For more information, see:
Compiler Options
/Wp64
__w64
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It says that %x will only display the first 32 bits of the value. In C language %x expects an argument of type 'unsigned int', which is 32 bits in Visual C++ on this 64 bit platform. This means that %x should perfectly well display an 'unsigned int' without any extra effort. Moreover, this also means that %x will work exactly as expected. What were they trying to say with that "won't work as expected" and "%I32x"? Why do they suggest using "%I64x" to display an integer if they just said that integers are 32 bits on that platform? That's just some kind of nonsense.