Hi, On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Dave Korn wrote:
> Ok. So if I had four ints, and I wanted to cast the pointers to char > and compare them as 16 chars, that would be OK, because the chars would > alias the ints; but in this case, where they started as chars and I cast > them to ints, those ints don't alias against the original chars. Is > that an accurate precis? Yes, this is correct. Many people are surprised by that, as they often "learned" that 'char' is the catch-all escape from aliasing problems. This is only true in one direction (accessing anything as chars), but not in the other (accessing chars as something else). Ciao, Michael.
