------- Additional Comments From ncm-nospam at cantrip dot org 2005-01-23 03:52 ------- Somebody mentioned that using unions for type punning was described in the textbooks as extremely bad form. That's how I always thought of it, too, but it seems, at least in Gcc, unions are now the right way to do type punning, instead of casting. For reference, see the notes under "-fstrict-aliasing" (which is turned on by -O2) in
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html (Thanks to Robert Love for having pointed this out to me.) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8670
