Printing a char with printf

Question

Are both these codes the same

char ch = \'a\';
printf(\"%d\", ch);

Will it print a garbage value?

I am confused about this

Answer 1

In C char gets promoted to int in expressions. That pretty much explains every question, if you think about it.

Source: The C Programming Language by Brian W.Kernighan and Dennis M.Ritchie

A must read if you want to learn C.

Also see this stack overflow page, where people much more experienced then me can explain it much better then I ever can.