Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Compiler bug or insuficient language definition ?
Message-ID: <1734@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Jun 89 21:06:05 GMT
References: <50537@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1172@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
Lines: 15

>If you had written instead:
>
>	printf("%lx %lx\n",f);
>
>	you would see the correct format.

At least on some implementations, including, presumably, the Encore one. 
If you *really* want to dump the bits of a value in a way that doesn't
depend on the details of parameter passing, write a "dump bits" routine
that takes a "char *" (or "unsigned char *") and perhaps a byte count,
and do

	dump_bits((char *)&f, sizeof f);

or something like that.