Float problems

[der Mouse]

In article <1991May25.213301.13765 at cs.mcgill.ca>, storm at cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

> Why does the following:

[abstracted to relevant piece -Mouse]

> float testfloat (void);
[...]
> 	float f;
> 	f = testfloat;

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

Misfeature in your compiler.  It should give you a message about
pointer to function not being assignment compatible with float, 'cuz
that's what what you've written is trying to do: set f to a pointer (to
testfloat).

					der Mouse

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