Re: Printf question.

praeiji <spacecaps@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But why are they typecasted to int? Does it come from gcc when it sees
> "%d" and the printf function?

No, they are not typecasted, but `promoted', which is not the same thing.
Promotion is what happens when you call a function that has no prototype, or
when a function with a variable number (variadic) of arguments like printf()
is called. With promotion, all arguments are converted to a generic 'bigger'
type: char and short to int, float to double.

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