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Subj : Re: Any help on why?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder
Date : Wed Jul 07 2004 11:23 am

Thomas Maeder [TeamB] wrote:

>X and lX are for integral values. Using them for something else is an even
>uglier hack than using the *printf() machinery at all.

And you call the below code *Not* ugly?

>To peek at the internals of, say, a double, the portable way is to
>treat it as an array of unsigned char, as in
>
>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)
>  printf("%u ",static_cast<unsigned int>(*c));

Yeah, but you want to use hex. You can't see the bits in 123.

My BC++ doesn't support 'reinterpret_cast'  That's some new-age mumbo
jumbo designed to slow down programmers. I suppose it's so hard to
type that it encourages programmers to do *anything* (even use the
correct types!) to avoid it.

Not to mention, the OP's code was C not C++ to begin with.

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