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aliasing nastiness
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: aliasing nastiness
- From: Matt Carlson <mindbender at lokigames dot com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 11:27:35 -0800
- Organization: Loki Entertainment Software
Hello,
I'm having a problem reading a double value from a character buffer.
Apparently the value stored in tmp (see below) differs between linux
and Win9x. I am aware of the fact that this is violating the ISO C
aliasing
assumptions and have compiled my project with the -fno-strict-aliasing
flag. My question is : is there any way to make the value that gets
stored into tmp identical across both platforms?
double FillDouble( char * buffer )
{
double tmp = *(double*)buffer;
return tmp;
}