Common Visual C++ 64-bit Migration 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.