shawn wrote: > And why do a copy when you > don't have to?
It's how you perform an unaligned access in C. The copy is optimized away on platforms that allow that. If the question is "why rename the data member", the answer is that that prevents new unaligned accesses from being introduced without anyone noticing. If the question is "why not use memcmp()", the answer is that memcmp does a big-endian comparison but the expected semantics here are little-endian. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
