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[–] Ethanol@pawb.social 30 points 1 year ago (11 children)

But what if I want a union struct to quickly interpret floats as ints and vice versa! I need my C hacks!

[–] anzich@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's actually nonstandard. Use memcpy

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Well it is standard. The standard says that it is undefined behaviour. But I guess you are right that some compilers have non-standard options to make it not undefined behaviour.

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