> All of the results you showed are correct. What, specifically, did you > expect the code to produce as output? a=0x0000000200000001 a=0x0000000200000001 a=0x0000000200000001 a=0x0000000200000001 a=0x0000000200000001 a=0x00000001ffffffff a=0x00000001ffffffff a=0x00000001ffffffff a=0x00000001ffffffff a=0x00000001ffffffff Hiroyuki Ito