Pointer question.

From: Gregory L. Hansen (glhansen_at_steel.ucs.indiana.edu)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 22:35:18 +0000 (UTC)

I want to check on something. For a float, f and a pointer to float,
fptr, are the statements

  *fptr = f;
  fptr = &f;

the same thing? 

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