It typically is a "long", but it seems possible that on some platforms
it wouldn't be.  In any case, this silences a compiler warning on
OpenBSD (cf buildfarm member curculio).

While at it, use snprintf not sprintf.  This format string couldn't
possibly overrun the supplied buffer, but that doesn't seem like
a good reason not to use the safer style.

Oversight in commit f828654e.  Back-patch to 9.6 where that came in.