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.
diff --git a/Python/thread_wince.h b/Python/thread_wince.h
index 38ead12..3e2cdb9 100644
--- a/Python/thread_wince.h
+++ b/Python/thread_wince.h
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@
 						1,              /* Is initially signalled  */
                         NULL);          /* Name of event            */
 
-    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_allocate_lock() -> %lx\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(), (long)aLock));
+    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_allocate_lock() -> %p\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(), aLock));
 
     return (PyThread_type_lock) aLock;
 }
 
 void PyThread_free_lock(PyThread_type_lock aLock)
 {
-    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_free_lock(%lx) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),(long)aLock));
+    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_free_lock(%p) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),aLock));
 
     CloseHandle(aLock);
 }
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@
     int success = 1;
     DWORD waitResult;
 
-    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_acquire_lock(%lx, %d) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),(long)aLock, waitflag));
+    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_acquire_lock(%p, %d) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),aLock, waitflag));
 
 #ifndef DEBUG
     waitResult = WaitForSingleObject(aLock, (waitflag == 1 ? INFINITE : 0));
@@ -185,17 +185,17 @@
 		success = 0;    /* We failed */
     }
 
-	dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_acquire_lock(%lx, %d) -> %d\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),(long)aLock, waitflag, success));
+	dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_acquire_lock(%p, %d) -> %d\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),aLock, waitflag, success));
 
 	return success;
 }
 
 void PyThread_release_lock(PyThread_type_lock aLock)
 {
-    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_release_lock(%lx) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),(long)aLock));
+    dprintf(("%ld: PyThread_release_lock(%p) called\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(),aLock));
 
     if (!SetEvent(aLock))
-        dprintf(("%ld: Could not PyThread_release_lock(%lx) error: %l\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(), (long)aLock, GetLastError()));
+        dprintf(("%ld: Could not PyThread_release_lock(%p) error: %l\n", PyThread_get_thread_ident(), aLock, GetLastError()));
 }