Oh, you are right, this can be problematic, although I don't like your solution either, since unsigned long is going to be larger than 32-bit on 50% of the plat

Oh, you are right, this can be problematic, although I don't like your solution either, since unsigned long is going to be larger than 32-bit on 50% of the platforms (not really, but you know the drill, Linux: 64-bit, Windows: 32-bit).