Why Use Pointers?
Problems
Problem : Given the function: void print_bit_int(int value); which takes an integer as a parameter and prints out its bit representation, write a line of code which prints out the bit representation for a float spark (you can assume that a float is the same size as an integer).
Problem : Write a function, memcmp(), which takes two void pointers and a length in bytes, and compares the memory at those two locations for that many bytes. It should return a non-zero value if the memory matches, and zero if the memory does not match.
Problem : What is wrong with the following code? How would you fix it with a cast?
int main()
{
int steve;
int *spark;
void *notes;
steve = 500;
spark = &steve;
notes = (void*)spark;
*notes = 600;
printf("%d\n", steve);
return 0;
}
Problem : What is wrong with the following code?
int main()
{
int a, b;
double d, e
void* v[10];
v[0] = &a;
v[1] = &d;
v[2] = &b;
v[3] = &e;
int x = *((int*)v[0]);
double w = *((double*)v[1]);
int y = *((int*)v[1]);
return 0;
}





