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  Value and type of last evaluated expression: Address of array element: Address of array elementx:  (none)

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// This has a deliberate error: we are 
// using %g to read bigvar instead of %lg


 int main(){
»  float littlevar=0;// Four bytes 
»  double bigvar=0;// Eight bytes

»  printf("Please enter two numbers:\n");
»  scanf("%g", &littlevar);
»  scanf("%g", &bigvar);// ERROR!

»  printf("%g %g\n", littlevar, bigvar);

»  return 0;
}
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Data

Memory

main()

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bigvar = 0
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littlevar = 0

NB: the actual memory address of each variable is the
address shown plus 4292711120 (0xFFDD92D0).

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Input was:

4.56 -7.89e24

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Output

Please enter two numbers:
4.56 1.92982e-314
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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