Re: The joy of type aliasing and C

Brian Hook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
Message-ID <20041311151.090725@GATEWAY>
> - Overlaying an lvalue with multiple types (a.k.a. type punning) "

This is what it does, and it DOES compile, because it's legal syntax, 
just like pointer casting between incompatible types in C.  But just 
because it compiles doesn't mean that the standard guarantees it will 
run like you expect =)

Brian




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