Re: printf("%d",float)

From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:45:18 +0000

Philip Potter said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Jack Klein said:

<snip>

Of course, dereferencing that pointer
is completely undefined.

Right, which is why I consider the conversion meaningless.

So conversion to void * is always meaningless, because no void * can be
dereferenced?

Um, er... :-)

Okay, so that's an exception. But I think that, in general terms, it's
still a reasonable rule of thumb.

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