/* A short program to see what signed-magnitude decimal floating point number*/
/* is represented by the binary bit pattern in a memory location, where the  */
/* 32-bit number is represented in hexadecimal shorthand for an IEEE754      */
/* single-precision floating point number format; and vice versa.            */
/* In these cases, we ignore the compiler warnings from the -Wall option to  */
/* the effect that we are assigning the wrong type of values to the pointers.*/
/*                                                          C. Silio         */
/*                                                          May 9, 2009      */
#include<stdio.h>
void main(void){
  /*                                                   */
  /* Hex representation to floating point value output */
  /*                                                   */
  unsigned int num1 = 0xC13C0000;
  float* fnum1;              /* let fnum1 think it points at a float value */
  fnum1 = &num1;             /* point fnum1 to the address num1 */
  printf("num1 = 0x%x\t fnum1 = %f \n", num1, *fnum1); /* print the value
			      in the memory location to which fnum1 points */
  /*                                                            */
  /* Floating point value to hexadecimal representation output  */
  /*                                                            */
  float fnum2 = -7.125;
  unsigned int *num2;
  num2 = &fnum2;
  printf("num2 = 0x%x\t fnum2 = %f \n", *num2, fnum2); 
  return;
}