W8071 Conversion may lose significant digits (C++)

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(Command-line option to display warning: -wsig)

For an assignment operator or some other circumstance, your source file requires a conversion from a larger integral data type to a smaller integral data type where the conversion exists.

Because the integral data type variables don't have the same size, this kind of conversion might alter the behavior of a program.