> unfortunately, ulong is still used where uintptr should be. it's fairly > rampant.
"Because it descended from typeless languages, C has traditionally been rather permissive in allowing dubious mixtures of various types; the most flagrant violations of good practice involved the confusion of pointers and integers." -- Johnson & Ritchie: 'Portability of C Programs and the UNIX System' (BSTJ Jul-Aug 1978)
