From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: A newbie question: out to print out value of doubles?
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 1996 10:11:41 -0500
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Richard Adams wrote:
> 
> void main(void)

please don't do this. main is supposed to return an int no matter what
some books tell you.

> {
>         double a=3.125978724;
> 
> 
>         printf("The variable a is:\n\t");
>         fprintf ("%f\n", &a);
> 
>         return;
> }
> 
> I get an "incompatible pointer type" warning. How can I print out the
> value of a double-precision floating point variable? Any help at all
> will be greatly appreciated...:)  Thank you!!

well, fprintf is not fscanf. when you are using the printf functions you
only need to specify the name of the variable.

sinan.
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