On 27 November 2013 21:18, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> the union itself explicitly declares aliasing, not which > member you use. > actually, even a union won't help you here: "When a value is stored in a member of an object of union type, the bytes of the object representation that do not correspond to that member but do correspond to other members take unspecified values." Really, the way to do this particular operation portably is to write it portably, and extract and rearrange the bytes.
