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Subject: Re: printf and the 'hh' conversion specifier (C99) [PATCH]
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021201092042.17170A-100000@is> "from Eli Zaretskii
 at Dec 1, 2002 09:21:59 am"
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Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:05:12 +0100 (CET)
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
> > This is shorter than a short - a char. The only change that concerns
> > me is:
> > 
> >     ARG(int);
> > 
> > switched to:
> > 
> >     ARG(signed);
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure this is equivalent.
> 
> Yes, I think so, since our `int' is a signed data type.

But why is the change necessary then? Isn't is better to really
specify the type as explicit as possible? (Like "signed int" in this
case.)


Right,

						MartinS