Behaviour of %08X format specifiers on addresses

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Graham" <grahamc001uk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:fd32ak$255t$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I realize that the documentation says that the argument should be an 
>integer type when using %X etc. format specifiers, so it works as I 
>expected with
>
> writefln("p = %08X", cast(int)p);
>
> etc.
>
> But even so accepting a non-integer type and then supposing small values 
> are only 16 bits seems a bit odd.

Try using

writefln("p = %08p", p);

It might even just be "%p".