Subj : Re: Any help on why?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder
Date : Thu Jul 08 2004 07:14 pm

"Stan DeGroff" <sdegroff@bright.net> writes:

> Question:  In fortran I can map an array of integers on top of an array of
> floating point.
> This allows me to gain access to the data in multiplt formats.  This is done
> by using the "equate" operand.
>
> Is there a similar operation within C ???

Some programmers suggest using a union for this, but writing to one union
member and then reading from another has undefined behavior in most cases.

In another post, I showed how to cast a pointer to double to a pointer to
unsigned char and treat the double object as an array of unsigned char.

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