```(-1L).toULong()```
That's ugly :sad-panda:
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Edoardo Luppi
11/20/2023, 9:09 PM Copy code
(-1L).toULong() Copy code
(-1L).toULong() == ULong.MAX_VALUEp
Pablichjenkov
11/20/2023, 9:26 PMIt seems that each platform uses a different integer binary bit representation. Is a good call out 👍
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Klitos Kyriacou
11/21/2023, 9:41 AMWhat's strange about it? I'm not using Windows right now, but I always thought it was 64-bit two's complement, like most platforms.
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Pablichjenkov
11/21/2023, 11:52 AMI believe it uses twos complement.
111 = -1 which seeing from an unsigned perspective is the biggest possible value.
Now is confusing, I consider this should throw or warn, since it is kinda converting something that is negative, and has no representation in the unsigned domain.
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Klitos Kyriacou
11/21/2023, 12:08 PMI think this is the correct behaviour as it is consistent with all other forms of integer casting in which the original number is outside the domain of the target. For example,
257.toByte()p
Pablichjenkov
11/21/2023, 12:11 PMGot it, makes sense tbh, is basically some of us not knowing the overflow/casting rules