What is the meaning of line:aa=(char*)a; and bb=(char*)b;......its a c language program

Question

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int a=54;
float b=3.121;
char *aa,*bb;
aa=(char*)a;
bb=(char*)b;
printf("%d",aa);
printf("%u",bb);
return 0;
}

Answer 1

Its like converting floats and integers to char

Answer 2

You need to add this conversion if you want to assign an integers address to a char pointer otherwise you will get compiler error

Answer 3

when you print aa it will give you same data

Answer 4

is it like type casting a pointer??

Answer 5

what does it basically do to our char pointer??

Answer 6

a variable is an integer aa pointers type is char that line converts a to char if you print aa pointer in %c it will show you a character from the ASCII code which is equal to a's value

Answer 7

you cant assign a char pointer to int variable so that line basically converted a to char and printed a's value as decimal as you see in printf %d

Answer 8

it is same with defining an integer type aa pointer and assigning it with integer a