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"The Cast Is Free"
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A type cast forcing a large value into a smaller type has a side effect — truncation, bytes dropped — and treating it as harmless turns a known mechanism into a silent bug.
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A total squeezed into a smaller slot arrives smaller, unannounced.
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The compiler permitted what someone signed for.