Subj : Re: Any help on why?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder
Date : Thu Jul 08 2004 07:11 pm

Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> writes:

>> In contrary to your code, mine is at least correct.
>
> Not quite, yours is also wrong-endian on Win/Intel.

Mine is endianness agnostic.


>>>>double d(3.11415);
>>>>unsigned char const *const begin(reinterpret_cast<unsigned char *>(&d));
>>>>unsigned char const *const end(begin + sizeof d);
>>>>for (unsigned char const *c = begin; c!=end; ++c)
>
> Should be   c=end-1, c>= begin; --c

That would have undefined behavior when c is moved to begin-1.


> Go along with that, but maybe better would be to fire those inept
> programmers (or retrain them).

After all these things you posted in this thread, I doubt that you are in
a position to ask somebody else to get retrained, I'm afraid.

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