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Re: Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning


Hi Steve,

What you're looking for is a cast. i.e.:

int *p;
float g = 3.141592653589793238;
p = (int *)&g;

--josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dondley" <s@dondley.com>
To: <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:13 PM
Subject: Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning


> Hi,
>
> I've written a simple program that print out each bit of a floating point
> variable so I can learn how floating point numbers are represented in
> memory.  The program contains the following statements:
>
> int *p;
> float g = 2.0625;
> p = &g;
>
> The third statement above generates an "assignment from incompatible
pointer
> type" warning for obvious reasons.  Other than this, the program compiles
> fine and works.
>
> My question is:  Is there a way to properly assign a pointer of one type
to
> a variable of different type so that the warning is suppressed?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>



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