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

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From: Roland Schwarz (roland.schwarz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-18 18:24:20

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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.)

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