Puzzling program

Good day group.

I was asked in an interview to explain the behavior of this program.

void main()
{
char *s = "abc";
int *i = (int *) s;
printf("%x", *i);
}

The question is: why is the output 636261? I don't think I know enough
about C to understand how the conversions between pointer types are
occurring.

Thanks for any help.

RD

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