Type punning in C

Brian Matthews 6sigma at polari.UUCP
Sat Oct 14 11:18:17 AEST 1989


In article <7675 at cdis-1.uucp> tanner at cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
|henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|) If your compiler won't put unions into registers, complain to
|) your supplier.  
|Done, long ago. [...] The vendor's comment?  He said that they don't have
|to put unions in registers because "register" is just a hint, and they're
|free to do whatever they want to.

To which your response should be, "I'm free to do what I want also, and
now I'm going to find a new vendor."
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm at 6sigma.UUCP



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