weird things

weird.c

void error_reporter(const char* sentence, const char* error_message, size_t offset) {
#define extra_error_offset 7 
#define extra_error_prefix "^ --- "
#define extra_error_prefix_size 6

    u8 n_offset = offset + extra_error_offset;

    eprintln("Error: %s", sentence);
		
		    eprintln("%*s%s", n_offset, "^", error_message); // this does work
    eprintln("%*s%s", n_offset, extra_error_prefix, error_message); // while this does not work
}

this works

void error_reporter(const char* sentence, const char* error_message, size_t offset) {
#define extra_error_offset 7 
#define extra_error_prefix "^ --- "
#define extra_error_prefix_size 5

    u8 n_offset = offset + extra_error_offset + extra_error_prefix_size;

    eprintln("Error: %s", sentence);
    eprintln("%*s%s", n_offset, extra_error_prefix, error_message);
}