Re: [GD-General] The joy of type aliasing and C

[Alen L. <ale...@cr...>]

> I think the aliasing rules
> make it easier to compete with fortran compilers here.

Of course, I understand the reasoning on why hidden aliasing needs to
reduced/eliminated. But if some part of code _needs_ to access the bit pattern
of some data then there must be a legal way to tell the compiler "look, I'm
doing something nasty here". Is there?

> The problem with int x=*(int *)&f; is sort of side effect here.
> I don't really know for sure why there must be a problem,
> because the aliasing of the values is sort of obvious, and could
> be deduced separately.

Seconded.

Alen