Re: type based aliasing again

[Alexandre Oliva <oliva AT lsd.ic.unicamp.br>]

On Sep 14, 1999, Bernd Schmidt <bernds@cygnus.co.uk> wrote:

> If, by "cast to union", you mean code of the form

>    union foo { double a; int b[2]; };
>    double x;
>    x = 2.0;
>    ((union foo *)&x)->b[1] = 0;

> then this is not even going to work with gcc

But isn't exactly this work-around that we've have been recommending
to the Linux folks?  Houston, we have a problem! :-) / 2

How about:

     double x;
     ((union foo *)&x)->a = 2.0;
     ((union foo *)&x)->b[1] = 0;

Would this work?

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