Assigning multiple characters in an int in C language

Consider the following C program. C

#include <stdio.h> int main(void) {  int a = 'd';  printf("%d\n", a);  /*OUTPUT - 100 (ASCII Code for character d)*/  int b = 'dd';  printf("%d", b);  /*OUTPUT - 25700 (Explanation in detail given below)*/  return 0; } 

Output :

 100 25700 

We can easily guess that the output for 'd' is 100 as 100 is ASCII value of character 'd'. Let us consider below line

 int a = 'dd' 

(%d, a) prints 25700 as output 01100100 01100100 (Binary of 100 100) Assuming int is of 2 bytes, starting byte is occupied by first character 'd' and second byte by second character 'd'. Therefore overall binary involves 0110010001100100 i.e 2^14 + 2^13 + 2^10 + 2^6 + 2^5 + 2^2 = 25700. Now guess the output of following code. C

#include <stdio.h> int main(void) {  int b = 'de';  printf("%d", b);  return 0; }