printf « byte « C Data Type Q&A

1. printf too smart casting from char to int?    stackoverflow.com

Why does the following call:

printf("%d %d", 'a', 'b');

result in the "correct" 97 98 values? %d indicates the function has to read 4 bytes of data, and printf shouldn't be able to tell ...

2. How to print three bytes in a struct in C    stackoverflow.com

I have the following C code:

person->title

The title is a three byte char array. All I want to do is print those three bytes. I can't use the string formatter with printf ...