When using Arduino, you often want to print the hex value of a 32-bit value such as a uint32_t, consisting of eight hex digits. For example, if you have uint32_t val = 9177025;, you intend to print 008C07C1.
In Arduino you can do that using Serial.printf() with %08lx as format specifier. Furthermore, you typically want to invert the byte order of the uint32_t using __builtin_bswap32()since it’s more inuitive to write the hex value MSB-first (big-endian) while most hardware platforms represent the uint32_t as LSB-first (little-endian):
Serial.printf("val = %08lx\r\n", __builtin_bswap32(val));
When using printf, %x means to format the value as hex whereas l tells printf() that the argument is a long (32 bit) as opposed to an int (16 bit). 08 means to pad the value with 0s up to a length of 8 digits. If you would format 9177025 using just %x, it would print 008C07C1 instead of 008C07C1. This is why you need to use %08lx instead.