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copied!<p>I've put together some of the answers..</p> <p>While I haven't tested them.. I see nice examples that make sense to me, from within the answers, of</p> <p>Bruno provided an example in C</p> <p><code>#include <win32.h></code> (An OS specific line and code would have to be rewritten for a different OS) anything that's limited to using calls in stdio.h and a few others (are portable)</p> <p>Gary, spoke of a case with int. That in C, "an int is 32-bit on a 32-bit box. 64-bits on a 64-bit box" "the portable way is to use int32_t" and a point about C and assembly language.. I have asked around and found that if you go over the limit, it cycles back to 0. So, that'd be a case of code having a different effect on a different system and compiling, but perhaps not working as intended, and it having to be rewritten. </p> <p>Thorbjørn provided a link to examples of assembly language on different CPUs . Win32 ASM for 32-bit CPUs and Win64 for 64-bit. It has a hello world example in each, and says that it's not easy to convert them, since "In Win32, all the parameters are passed via the stack, however in Win64 they are passed via the registers." He said it uses different instructions.. I guess thouh perhaps it's more than that, in the sense that if it's a different assembly language.. and assembly language is an obvious case of non portability.. hence I didn't mention it in the question, but it's good to see the examples at that link. And it's good knowledge to have. Good to see some contemporary assembly languages not obscure machines..</p>

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