Re: [boost] [1.35][functional] gcc-4.2:dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

Teemu Torma wrote:

Wouldn't casting using union be safe and efficient in all cases?

I don't know anything about the specific problem at hand, but this hopefully is in carefully controlled code, i.e. platform dependant and the like. AFAIK this usage is not std c++. (But I might be wrong.) -- _________________________________________ _ _ | Roland Schwarz |_)(_ | aka. speedsnail | \__) | mailto:roland.schwarz@chello.at ________| http://www.blackspace.at