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Re: casting on 64/32-bit environment

Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org> writes:
>> Dose anyone have a reasonable explanation about that?
>
> make sure to use 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned int', as only the
> first one will be 64bit in a 64bit environment, the latter still will
> be 32bit.

You can't really assume this -- apparently on ms-windows "long" is still
32 bit, even in a "64-bit" environment (stupid, I agree, but I guess MS
has too much badly written code that they don't want to break...).

-Miles
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