On 2010-01-05 10:31:13 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > "An object shall have its stored value accessed only by an lvalue > expression that has one of the following types: > > but > > (union u*)&i > > is not a legal lvalue expression because the dereference is undefined > behaviour. You may only dereference a pointer as permitted by 6.3.2.3.
For the same reason, (char *) &i could not be dereferenced, and this would break a lot of code! -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
