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fun with pack and unpack
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fun_times.txt
perl -e 'print unpack("i", pack("i", -2315606021))."\n";'
x64: 1979361275
x86: -2147483648
perl -e 'print unpack("i", pack("i", -2315606022))."\n";'
x64: 1979361274
x86: -2147483648
What I need is something to chop off anything after 4 bytes. Actually, that's a lie. What I actually need is to know that the value will fit within the range of an int32.
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