Re: 'h' modifier in printf

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From: T.E.Dickey
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:20

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Michael J Zehr (tada@athena.mit.edu) wrote:
: The "h" modifier says the corresponding argument will be printed as a
: short or unsigned short.
...
: short s;
: printf("%d", s);
: printf("%hd", s);
... 
: Can these two ever be different?  I'm aware of course that the short is
: widened to an int during the function call, but this preserves the
: value.
sure can -- you're overlooking sign extension
 

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Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net

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