They are completely equivalent when used with printf()
. Personally, I prefer %d
. It’s used more often (should I say “it’s the idiomatic conversion specifier for int
“?).
(One difference between %i
and %d
is that when used with scanf()
, then %d
always expects a decimal integer, whereas %i
recognizes the 0
and 0x
prefixes as octal and hexadecimal, but no sane programmer uses scanf()
anyway, so this should not be a concern.)