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From: David Decotigny <ddecotig@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 22:00:58 -0800

> There is a set of conversion routines ulong[]<->u32[] to address this
> 32/64-bit compat issue.

And it's extremely ugly.

There is nothing stopping you from adding bitmap_set32() et al. helpers
to facilitate things.
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