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LongOrUnsignedLong

Sometimes we want to print a pointer as a number, such as this:

  QString string("%1").arg((unsigned int)pointer, 16);

which creates a a HEX string from the pointer. However for AMD64 pointers have 64 bit, while uint has 32 only. So we must use long instead of int.

The question is: should we replace the "unsigned int" in the code above by "long int" or by "unsigned long int" ? Anyone has a deeper knowledge on this?

Currently we use unsigned long int. If this is wrong, it must be fixed in:

• boufodebugwidget.cpp