Thread: doesn't print the real value

Hi I have a function that get a struct, and sum all his values, and return a float, and i want to print that returned float but, for some reason i get weird number, and i don't know whats happening

Code:

typedefstructcompetitor_status{    
    float cucumber;
    float carrot;
    float bean;

    struct competitor_status * left; /* links to teams with more or same points */
    struct competitor_status * right; /* links to teams with less points */
    
} competitor_node;

typedef competitor_node * comp_node_ptr;

void printNode(comp_node_ptr node){
    
    if(node == NULL){
        printf("Can't print information from one NULL node. \n");
        return;
    }
    
    float total;
    total = totalLength(node);
    
    printf("%-20s %-5d %20.2f %20.2f %20.2f %20.2f \n",
            node -> name,
            node -> id,
            node -> cucumber,
            node -> carrot,
            node -> bean,
            total
            );
    
}


float totalLength(comp_node_ptr node){
    
    float result;
    result = 0;
    
    result += node -> carrot;
    result += node -> bean;
    result += node -> cucumber;
    
    printf("%.2f \n", result);
    
    return result;
    
    
     }

inside the function totalLength when it prints out they have the value correct 108.40, but when is returned and printed they have 1121504512.00 . I'm confued now, because is not the first time i had this problem

This is the output I have
108.40
Margaret Mouse 1 12.50 39.70 56.20 1121504512.00


First green number is the sum of the other green values, this is produced inside the totalLength method, and the red number is when we print that value

Well if you don't prototype your function before calling it, C will assume that totalLength() returns int.

So it will do another int to float conversion on what is already a float.

If your compiler doesn't warn about redeclaration errors, you need a better compiler.

If you're just ignoring compiler warnings, you're an idiot.