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From: deadlyhead <deadlyhead@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Access to C_float wipes out float value
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:12:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 19, 7:09=A0pm, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:40:18 +0200, deadlyhead <deadlyh...@gmail.com> a =
=A0
> =E9crit:
>
>
>
> > void*
> > do_something (int get_float)
> > {
>
> > =A0 int* =A0 i;
> > =A0 float* f;
>
> > =A0 int in =3D 12345; // <<< local
> > =A0 float fl =3D 9876.54321; // idem
>
> > =A0 f =3D &fl; // <<< reference to local
> > =A0 i =3D &in; // idem
>
> > =A0 if (!get_float) {
> > =A0 =A0 printf ("Value of \"*i\" is %d\n", *i);
> > =A0 =A0 return i; // <<< return reference to local
> > =A0 } else {
> > =A0 =A0 printf ("Value of \"*f\" is %f\n", *f);
> > =A0 =A0 return f; // idem
> > =A0 }
> > }
>
> Did you really want to return a reference to a local variable ? Are you =
=A0
> sure ?

Ah, thank you.  I didn't even think of that.