Let’s create two c language files,

//test.c
#include 

int main(void)
{
    printf("%lld\n", myNumber());
}

//func.c
#include 

long long myNumber(void)
{
    long long hash = -3524413842735980669;
    printf("%lld\n", hash);
    return hash;
}

and compile & link them:

gcc -c test.c -o test.o
gcc -c func.c -o func.o
gcc test.o func.o -o test

But after run “./test”, the result is

-3524413842735980669
2118164355

Why the result from myNumber() become different in main() function?

Let’s see the assembly language source of test.c (gcc -S test.c)

......
        call    myNumber
        movl    %eax, %esi
        movl    $.LC0, %edi
        movl    $0, %eax
        call    printf
......

It only get the 32-bits result from function ‘myNumber’ (The size of %eax register is just 32-bits, smaller than the size of “long long”). Actually, we missed the declaration of myNumber() in test.c file so it only consider the result of myNumber() as 32-bits size.
After adding the declaration of myNumber() into test.c, we could check the assembly language source has changed:

......
        call    myNumber
        movq    %rax, %rsi
        movl    $.LC0, %edi
        movl    $0, %eax
        call    printf

(The size of %rax register is 64-bits)
And the result of running ‘./test’ is correct now.

-3524413842735980669
-3524413842735980669