On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Clark Cox wrote: > For types smaller than int, there is no need to explicitly cast; the > standard guarantees that such values are converted to int (or unsigned > int) implicitly. In fact, the 'h' and 'hh' modifiers are completely > redundant and are ignored when passed to printf-like functions
... unless you're printing signed variables using %x, for one. % cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { short x = -1; printf("hx 0x%hx\n", x); printf("x 0x%x\n", x); return 0; } % cc test.c % ./a.out hx 0xffff x 0xffffffff (Hint: Implicit promotion to int, and sign extension.) -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com