<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">complains about the following statement:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">result = *(float*)&resultAsUnsigned;<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, this compiler warning message does not indicate a bug in the code. "resultAsUnsigned" is a 4-byte value that stores a 'float'; it is not an unsigned value that gets converted to a float.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">This little snippet, and it's compiled output, illustrate the problem:<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, a more accurate 'snippet', which illustrates what the code really does, would be:</div><div><br></div><div><div>void func(float &f)</div><div>{</div><div> float val = 3.0;</div><div> unsigned *vptr = (unsigned*)&val;</div><div><br></div><div> unsigned resultAsUnsigned = *vptr; // a 4-byte value that stores a 'float'</div><div> f = *(float*)&resultAsUnsigned;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>(and then "main()" as you originally wrote it)</div><div><br></div><div>If you can suggest an alternative coding that eliminates your compiler warning, then that would be great. But the code - as it stands - is not in error.</div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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