Type punning in C

[Dik T. Winter]

(You could read the parent twice; I did not include it twice.)

In article <10950 at riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond at ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond) writes:
 > In article <475 at idacrd.UUCP> desj at idacrd.UUCP (David desJardins) writes:
 > 
 > >      X = OR (I, 0).
 > >(The Cray FORTRAN compiler optimizes out the trivial OR instruction.)
 > 
 > Looks like the Cray Fortran compiler has a bug.  The result of OR(I,0)
 > should be an integer,

This ought to be in comp.lang.fortran; but nevertheless: no Mr Diamond.
OR is not a standard (generic) function in Fortran so Cray may play all
games with it (and defines it as typeless).
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