recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops

[Dave Korn]

On 22 August 2007 14:06, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:47:52AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> 
>>   Well, I like to think that I could cast the address to unsigned char*,
>> memcpy a bunch of them to the address of an int, then dereference the int and
>> the compiler would realise it was a no-op and optimise it away, but I doubt
>> thatt would actually happen...   
> 
>    It did a few months ago, at least for scalar variables. 

  I'm proper impressed!

> Have we regressed in this area?

  Not that I know of.  


    cheers,
      DaveK
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