Float problems

[Marc WANDSCHNEIDER]

[ANSI C stuff]

Why does the following:

#include<stdio.h>

float testfloat (void);

void main(void)
{
	float f;

	f = testfloat;

	printf("%7.3f\n", f);
}

float testfloat (void)
{
	return 1.234;
}

Give me an ILLEGAL USE OF FLOATING POINT error...?

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