Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: | | > The strict aliasing rule by itself does not show it is not a high level | > assembly language. There are chips out there where you cannot access | > data willy-nilly through random register types. | | And there are chips for which signed arithmetic is not wrap around!
yes, but that is irrelevant, the assumptin was made that one knows what the chip provides. numeric_limits<T> is target dependent. -- Gaby