Fix: silence gcc -Wextra warning

Fix: silence gcc -Wextra warning

It appears that just casting to "unsigned long" already has the semantic
we are looking for (checked by reading C99 standard and
experimentation): it sign-extends smaller signed integers, and does not
sign-extend unsigned integers.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>