Comment 3 for bug 1036859

I have already added a comment to the bug, listing the package as
libc6-dev. I'll also follow the link in case that "official" way is
more helpful.

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> Title:
> stdint.h defines PRIx16 and similar in unhelful way
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 11.04
> reference: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/inttypes.h.html
>
> inttypes.h defines macros for fixed integer types. The ones for 8-
> and 16-bit types are currently the same as the 32-bit types, which
> pretty much makes them useless.
>
> PRIx16 is x I suggest it should be hx
> PRIx8 is x I suggest it should be hhx
>
> Otherwise, only by excruciatingly correct typecasting in the printf can you get the correct output for something like
> int16_t this = -1;
> printf("%" PRIx16 "\n", this);
>
> As it stands, it will print 8 hex digits. It makes more sense for it
> to print 4.
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