Conversions/casts one more time

levy at ttrdc.UUCP levy at ttrdc.UUCP
Sat Dec 13 04:59:14 AEST 1986


In article <820 at mtund.UUCP>, adam at mtund.UUCP writes:
>Ugh. %x expects an int, so the result of feeding it a char is,
>*and ought to be*, UNDEFINED.
>				Adam Reed (mtund!adam)

In principle, yes; in practice all C compilers I've seen (what does the
latest ANSI std. say?) convert chars to ints when passing them as arguments.
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