Alternatives to type casting when formatting NS(U)Integer on 32 and 64 bit architectures?

Question

With the 64 bit version of iOS we can\'t use %d and %u anymore to format NSInteger and NSUInteger. Because for 64 bit tho

Answer 1

I prefer to just use an NSNumber instead:

NSInteger myInteger = 3;
NSLog(@"%@", @(myInteger));

This does not work in all situations, but I've replaced most of my NS(U)Integer formatting with the above.