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On 07/01/2011 04:04 AM, Frank Peters wrote: |
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> A few days ago I posted about a possible problem with a floating |
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> point test called the UCBTEST. After examining the source code |
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> of this test, I see violations of aliasing rules throughout. |
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> It's hard to efficiently manipulate variables without them. |
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You can alias them with a char* (a char pointer can alias everything in |
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a valid and defined manner). What you do is use the char* to scan over |
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the target type. And since a char is always guaranteed to be 8 bits, |
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it's very suited for doing endian conversions. |
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