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From: brian@ncrcan.UUCP (Brian Onn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: why doesn't printf work right?
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Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 10:59:24 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 30 10:59:24 1987
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	Why does the following code output ffffffff, instead of simply ff,
which I expected from it?  Size of short is 16 bits.   I have tried this on
a Sun, Vax 11/750, and an NCR Tower.

main()
{
	short i = -1;

	printf("%2.2x\n",i);
}