ISO Aliasing rules question

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Friday, February 21, 2003 10:16:02 AM -0700 "law@redhat.com" 
<law@redhat.com> wrote:

> Is this correct?  Or is my recollection of the ISO standard incorrect
> here?

This is tricky.  In general, you're right -- the structure of the type
doesn't matter, only the name.

But, then there's the "common initial sequence" stuff -- which doesn't 
apply in your example, but can in other palces.  See 6.5.2.3 in your C99 
standard for details.

Bottom line: the optimization in the code you showed is correct.

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