Printf and hex values

Question

So, I have a value of type __be16 (2 bytes). In hex, the value is represented as 0x0800 or 2048 in decimal. (16^2 * 8)

So, when I printf this; I do this:

printf("%04X", value); //__be16 value;
                      //Print a hex value of at least 4 characters, no padding.

output: 0008

printf("%i", value); //Print an integer.

output: 8

I should be getting 0800 and 2048 respectively, what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

My guess is that value is 8. :-)

Are you on a little endian machine, such as x86? I'm going to guess that by be16 you mean that the value is big endian and you need to swap the bytes.