Converting double to void* in C

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On many systems a double is 8 bytes wide and a pointer is 4 bytes wide. The former, therefore, would not fit into the latter.

You would appear to be abusing void*. Your solution is going to involve allocating storage space at least as big as the largest type you need to store in some variant-like structure, e.g. a union.

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