Trent Mick <trentm@activestate.com>:

The common technique for printing out a pointer has been to cast to a long
and use the "%lx" printf modifier. This is incorrect on Win64 where casting
to a long truncates the pointer. The "%p" formatter should be used instead.

The problem as stated by Tim:
> Unfortunately, the C committee refused to define what %p conversion "looks
> like" -- they explicitly allowed it to be implementation-defined. Older
> versions of Microsoft C even stuck a colon in the middle of the address (in
> the days of segment+offset addressing)!

The result is that the hex value of a pointer will maybe/maybe not have a 0x
prepended to it.


Notes on the patch:

There are two main classes of changes:
- in the various repr() functions that print out pointers
- debugging printf's in the various thread_*.h files (these are why the
patch is large)


Closes SourceForge patch #100505.

Objects/fileobject.c

@@ -240,11 +240,11 @@ file_repr(f)
 	PyFileObject *f;
 {
 	char buf[300];
-	sprintf(buf, "<%s file '%.256s', mode '%.10s' at %lx>",
+	sprintf(buf, "<%s file '%.256s', mode '%.10s' at %p>",
 		f->f_fp == NULL ? "closed" : "open",
 		PyString_AsString(f->f_name),
 		PyString_AsString(f->f_mode),
-		(long)f);
+		f);
 	return PyString_FromString(buf);
 }