Pointers and assignment and unpredictale result

[farooqpervaiz]

I have a following code:

void *result=GetCurrentApplicationHandler();

long *lngPointer=(long *)result;

printf("\nlngPointer = %d",*lngPointer);

returnValue=*lngPointer;

printf("\nreturnValue = %d",returnValue);

GetCurrentApplicationHandler is a function that returns the pointer to long. I cast it to (long*) pointer and display the value, which displays correctly the value returned by the function. Now I want to pass that value to another function. When I assign this value to returnValue(long) variable, and print it , it displays a garbage value, any ideas, what is missing in above code?

Regards,
Muhammad Farooq

[Bazzy]

That's could be becuse you are casting the pointer to a variable with different size than the value pointed, try replacing long with some other types

[jsmith]

Ok, setting aside the pointer cast magic and assuming it works, the correct format specifier for a long is %ld, not %d.