error: cast from ‘int*’ to ‘unsigned int’ loses precision [-fpermissive]

今天在编译一下程序时，发生报错：

#include<stdio.h>

int main()
{
  int i;

  char char_array[5] = {'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'};
  int int_array[5] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}; 

  unsigned int  hacky_nonpointer;

  hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned int) char_array;

  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
  {
    printf("(hacky_nonpointer) points to %p, which contains the char '%c'\n", hacky_nonpointer, *((char *)hacky_nonpointer));
    hacky_nonpointer = hacky_nonpointer + sizeof(char);
  }

  hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned int) int_array;
  
  for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
  {
    printf("(hacky_nonpointer) points to %p, which contains the int '%d'\n", hacky_nonpointer, *((int *)hacky_nonpointer));
    hacky_nonpointer = hacky_nonpointer + sizeof(int);
  }

}

报错信息

错误原因

在C语言中，指针的大小与内存地址的位数有关。x86体系结构中，内存使用32位地址，所以指针大小也是32位（4字节）。而在x86_64体系结构中，内存使用64位地址，所以指针的大小也是64位。
我下边这两句代码是将指针类型（64位）强制转换为了unsigned int类型（32位）：

hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned int) char_array;
hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned int) int_array;

这就导致原本8字节的char_array和int_array被我强制截断成了4字节，进而损失了精度、产生报错。。。

解决方法

将 unsigned int 类型改成 unsigned long类型即可

hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned long) char_array;
hacky_nonpointer = (unsigned long) int_array;