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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: ansi printf questions
Message-ID: <9604@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Feb 89 17:21:07 GMT
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In article <15188@oberon.USC.EDU> blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
-One further question:  On a machine with 16 bit short and 32 bit int,
-what should:
-printf("%hd", 65537);
-print?  65537 (ignore the h)?  1 (truncate to short)?  unspecified?

Unspecified.  Do whatever you like.