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But what if I want a union struct to quickly interpret floats as ints and vice versa! I need my C hacks!
It's actually nonstandard. Use memcpy
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.