Hi,
I don't understand what do you mean by "PORTABLE". Union is supported in
sdcc, gnu-arm, gcc and visual C.
And I have not seen any document stating that the usage of union in C is bad
:)
Krish
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause <p...@spth.de> wrote:
> Am 05.05.2011 09:10, schrieb Krishnendu Chatterjee:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My solution would be:
> >
> > #include <stdint.h>
> >
> > union […]
>
> This seems to be the best so far, but none of the presented "solutions"
> from this thread is portable or good C. Here's one that is:
>
> unsigned char c[sizeof(unsigned long)];
> unsigned long i;
>
> memcpy(c, &i, sizeof(unsigned long));
> memcpy(&i, c, sizeof(unsigned long));
>
> Philipp
>
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