printf format specifiers

[Steve Dondley]

Hi,

I have the following line in one of my programs:

printf("%d\n", *string);

*string is a pointer to a string.  The above line prints out the ASCII
decimal equivalent of the character that the pointer is pointing to.  This
is what I was looking to accomplish.

My question is why?  Why wouldn't I need to use the %hu (unsigned short
integer) format specifier?  When I do use the %hu, I get precisely the same
results.  This despite the fact that %d reads an entire word and %hu reads a
single byte.

Is this some compiler magic going on here?

Thanks.