Re: [Algorithms] How to get 3dvector largest coordinate index?

[Gino v. d. B. <gin...@gm...>]

Yes, I know. Call me reckless but I just do not believe that 
strict-aliasing on union fields will be exploited by a C++ compiler any 
time soon. It will break too much existing code (not only mine).

liam mail wrote:
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> 2009/3/6 Gino van den Bergen <gin...@gm... 
> <mailto:gin...@gm...>>
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>     The whole "union is
>     considered harmful" debate seems to be a mostly religious one.
>
> It is really quite simple in that it is undefined behaviour to type 
> cast using a union. Now if you want to heed this information it is up 
> to you, just because something works on day X on compiler Y does not 
> mean it will work on a different version of the compiler or on a 
> different compiler altogether.
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