Hi, > But that intermediate buffer is in registers (on sane arches), while using > memcpy would mean at least with current compilers memory.
True, I just consider that not so bad in this particular case. > glibc requires gcc (even 3.2+) to compile anyway, so IMHO just using the > union as drow posted seems best to me. I was just surprised that there is such a gcc extension, I can't even find it in http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2/gcc/C-Extensions.html#C%20Extensions at quick glance. Regards, Wolfram.
