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Old 04-22-2009
Error Float issues
i am adding two floating point numbers and i want to store in a character pointer...

float f1 ;
float f2 ;
char *c = NULL;
printf("Enter 2 floating numbers\n");
scanf("%f %f",&f1,&f2);

f1 = f1+f2;
sprintf(c, "%f", f1 );

when i execute this, i am getting segmentation fault(core dump).
please help in this regards.
# 2  
Old 04-22-2009
You can't assign a value to a pointer. First you have to allocate memory to store the value, something like:

Code:
char *c = malloc(32);

or:

Code:
char c[32];

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-22-2009
can u send the complete program for the above said problem
# 4  
Old 04-22-2009
There are a bunch of topics regarding C pointers on the net.
Google for "C" pointers.

Regards
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