Print a short instead of an int... ? What's up with "%hd"?


When passing arguments to a VAL function, all integer types are
promoted, and floats become doubles. Therefore, signed short will be
promoted to signed int. Therefore I can't see any reason why you'd
have:

printf( "%hd", my_short);

instead of:

printf( "%d", my_short);


Martin

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