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printf("Vanilla %X\nWith h  %hX\n", -1, -1);

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Vanilla FFFFFFFF
With h  FFFF

In article <4i801c$455@solutions.solon.com>,
	tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) writes:
 >
 >I was recently asked a question about printf whose answer I couldn't
 >determine by reading K&R2 (and alas the company doesn't have a copy of
 >the standard to refer to).
 >
 >The "h" modifier says the corresponding argument will be printed as a
 >short or unsigned short.
 >
 >So, given:
 >
 >short s;
 >printf("%d", s);
 >printf("%hd", s);
 >
 >(Assuming of course that s has been initialized at some point.)
 >
 >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.
 >
 >
 >Thanks,
 >michael j zehr

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