On 22 August 2007 14:06, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:47:52AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> >> Well, I like to think that I could cast the address to unsigned char*, >> memcpy a bunch of them to the address of an int, then dereference the int and >> the compiler would realise it was a no-op and optimise it away, but I doubt >> thatt would actually happen... > > It did a few months ago, at least for scalar variables.
I'm proper impressed! > Have we regressed in this area? Not that I know of. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....