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.

--- a/Modules/flmodule.c	Fri Jun 30 14:58:20 2000 +0000
+++ b/Modules/flmodule.c	Fri Jun 30 15:01:00 2000 +0000
@@ -435,8 +435,8 @@
 	genericobject *g;
 {
 	char buf[100];
-	sprintf(buf, "<FORMS_object at %lx, objclass=%d>",
-		(long)g, g->ob_generic->objclass);
+	sprintf(buf, "<FORMS_object at %p, objclass=%d>",
+		g, g->ob_generic->objclass);
 	return PyString_FromString(buf);
 }
 
@@ -1906,8 +1906,8 @@
 	formobject *f;
 {
 	char buf[100];
-	sprintf(buf, "<FORMS_form at %lx, window=%ld>",
-		(long)f, f->ob_form->window);
+	sprintf(buf, "<FORMS_form at %p, window=%ld>",
+		f, f->ob_form->window);
 	return PyString_FromString(buf);
 }