------- Additional Comments From martsummsw at hotmail dot com 2005-09-10 04:58 ------- First of all - Thank you. And I promise never to report an error against such an old version.
Second I however think I am happy to haven reported it since nobody on comp.lang.c++ knew ..... I found nothing on the internet or man math.h | grep -i sign // this might have changed since my old version Third I know that the reinterpret_cast is more than bad behavior and it strictly needs not to work. However I am not casting an int into a char-array where I should be able to hit eg an odd adresses (or?) and I guess that no padding could be in my way(?) So I could see no *reason* for it not to work. I know the union would do it (more) secure. I was just so stupid to think that it would not be as efficient. Summa: I am happy that I have been told about signbit - and I am really sorry to have wasted your time... Regards Thorbjørn -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23793
