What happens when float pointer is typecasted to char pointer?

Question

int main()
{
    float f = 12.2;
    char *p1;
    p1 = (char *)&f;
    printf (\"%d\", *p1);
}

This outputs 51.

Answer 1

There is slight deviation to your question I am off the topic,I usually use in such cases the snpritf Example:to fisrt format and then you can play the formatted buffer.