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>Relax, you will *never* get a crash with `printf' because of this.
>
>In fact, altough ANSI C permits it, I'd advise against declaring *any* 
>functions (even with constant argument lists) with shorts or floats as 
>one of the arguments; I suggest to always use ints and doubles instead.

Why not shorts?

ie, if you wanted a memcpy routine word writes then 

void memcpy(char *to, char *from, int len)
{
  len /=sizeof(short);
  char *t = (short *) to;
  char *f = (short *) from; 
  while(len--) {
   *t++=*f++
   };
};


whereas if you knew your buffers would %4

void memcpy(char *to, char *from, int len)
{
  len /=sizeof(int);
  char *t = (int *)to;
  char *f = (int *)from;
  while (len--) {
   *t++=*f++;
  };
};