Unsigned long with negative value

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Published on 2010-03-16T15:45:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 15:51 UTC
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Please see the simple code below:

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;


int main(void)
{
    unsigned long currentTrafficTypeValueDec;
    long input;
    input=63;
    currentTrafficTypeValueDec = (unsigned long) 1LL << input; 
    cout << currentTrafficTypeValueDec << endl;
    printf("%u \n", currentTrafficTypeValueDec);
    printf("%ld \n", currentTrafficTypeValueDec);
    return 0;
}

Why printf() displays the currentTrafficTypeValueDec (unsigned long) with negative value?

The output is:

9223372036854775808
0
-9223372036854775808 

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