diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 825b751a4b..bef6d8cbf2 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-08-21  Pierre Muller  <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
+
+	* symfile.c (allocate_symtab): Use host_address_to_string
+	function instead of cast of pointer to long which is not
+	compatible with x86_64-w64-mingw32 build.
+
 2012-08-19  Andrew Pinski  <apinski@cavium.com>
 
 	* mips-tdep.c (is_octeon): New function.
diff --git a/gdb/symfile.c b/gdb/symfile.c
index da068a1b80..d070e48d42 100644
--- a/gdb/symfile.c
+++ b/gdb/symfile.c
@@ -2883,8 +2883,8 @@ allocate_symtab (const char *filename, struct objfile *objfile)
 			      last_objfile_name);
 	}
       fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog,
-			  "Created symtab 0x%lx for module %s.\n",
-			  (long) symtab, filename);
+			  "Created symtab %s for module %s.\n",
+			  host_address_to_string (symtab), filename);
     }
 
   return (symtab);