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From: grogers@convex.com (Geoffrey Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How come << falls through at 16 on a 32-bit integer?
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.143844.12533@convex.com>
Date: 13 Apr 91 14:38:44 GMT
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In article <11004@uwm.edu> markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:
>* #include <stdio.h>
>* main() {
>*    unsigned long M = 34;
>*    printf("%08x\n", M << 16);
>* }

No. The problem is the %08x expects an int and you are printing a long
(unsigned long). You must also use the l flag to tell printf that the
argument is a long. Try:

	printf("%08lx\n", M << 16)


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