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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Float problems
Message-ID: <1991May25.213301.13765@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 25 May 91 21:33:01 GMT
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[ANSI C stuff]

Why does the following:

#include<stdio.h>

float testfloat (void);

void main(void)
{
	float f;

	f = testfloat;

	printf("%7.3f\n", f);
}

float testfloat (void)
{
	return 1.234;
}

Give me an ILLEGAL USE OF FLOATING POINT error...?

./*-

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storm@cs.mcgill.ca         McGill University           It's 11pm, do YOU
Marc Wandschneider         Montreal, CANADA            know what time it is?
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