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Sure, on any modern platform. But you don't change 25-year-old code unless there's a pressing reason.

Fair enough. I suppose I could see twenty-five year old code relying on data sizes in such a way that a seemingly trivial change could cause issues.

The real question is, what the hell does a Madden developer do for the rest of the time that dealing with data type changes is not worth it?

How about things like 'physics' and 'ai'.