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The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad
One thing that works well in practice in cases where you really don’t want to process single bytes at a time is to use a union for going from one type to another. Granted, writing one member of a union and reading from a different one also isn’t allowed per the standard, but every compiler I’ve come across allows it…
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- 125
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Programming LanguagesSoftware Engineering2016
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2016 | The Strict Aliasing Situation Is Pretty Bad by pascal_cuoq | 150 | 67 |
| Oct 6, 2024 | The strict aliasing situation is pretty bad (2016) by pkkm | 74 | 58 |
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