JG> I can't really comment on the necessity of these particular
JG> statements, but is there a way for use to print that value in a
JG> platform-independent way?
Yep, see inttypes.h.
"%hhu" was intended to be a byte, so PRIu8 would be the appropriate
selection here, used as follows:
printf("Here is my byte: %" PRIu8 "\n", my_byte);
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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
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