How to print out the memory contents of a variable in C?

Question

Suppose I do a

double d = 234.5;

I want to see the memory contents of d [the whole 8 bytes]

How do I do that?

Answer 1

If you want to print the double values in bits try this. I have tried for float value. If you changed that you can be able to view the double value in 64 bits.

#include 

int main (void)
{
        float f = 10.0f;

        struct Float {
                unsigned char bit01:1;
                unsigned char bit02:1;
                unsigned char bit03:1;
                unsigned char bit04:1;
                unsigned char bit05:1;
                unsigned char bit06:1;
                unsigned char bit07:1;
                unsigned char bit08:1;
                unsigned char bit09:1;
                unsigned char bit10:1;
                unsigned char bit11:1;
                unsigned char bit12:1;
                unsigned char bit13:1;
                unsigned char bit14:1;
                unsigned char bit15:1;
                unsigned char bit16:1;
                unsigned char bit17:1;
                unsigned char bit18:1;
                unsigned char bit19:1;
                unsigned char bit20:1;
                unsigned char bit21:1;
                unsigned char bit22:1;
                unsigned char bit23:1;
                unsigned char bit24:1;
                unsigned char bit25:1;
                unsigned char bit26:1;
                unsigned char bit27:1;
                unsigned char bit28:1;
                unsigned char bit29:1;
                unsigned char bit30:1;
                unsigned char bit31:1;
                unsigned char bit32:1;
        };

        struct Float *F;

        F = (struct Float *) &f;

        printf("\nMSB -->1 bit for sign bit; 8 bit for exponent; 23 bit for mantisa<-- LSB\n");
        printf("%d ", F->bit32);
        printf("%d", F->bit31);
        printf("%d", F->bit30);
        printf("%d", F->bit29);
        printf("%d", F->bit28);
        printf("%d", F->bit27);
        printf("%d", F->bit26);
        printf("%d", F->bit25);
        printf("%d ", F->bit24);
        printf("%d", F->bit23);
        printf("%d", F->bit22);
        printf("%d", F->bit21);
        printf("%d", F->bit20);
        printf("%d", F->bit19);
        printf("%d", F->bit18);
        printf("%d", F->bit17);
        printf("%d", F->bit16);
        printf("%d", F->bit15);
        printf("%d", F->bit14);
        printf("%d", F->bit13);
        printf("%d", F->bit12);
        printf("%d", F->bit11);
        printf("%d", F->bit10);
        printf("%d", F->bit09);
        printf("%d", F->bit08);
        printf("%d", F->bit07);
        printf("%d", F->bit06);
        printf("%d", F->bit05);
        printf("%d", F->bit04);
        printf("%d", F->bit03);
        printf("%d", F->bit02);
        printf("%d\n", F->bit01);
}