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

Try

union Plop
{
    double   value;
    char     data[sizeof(double)];
};

Plop print;
print.value = 234.5;

std::copy(print.data,print.data+sizeof(double),std::ostream_iterator(std::cout)," ");
std::cout << std::endl;