On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:21:55PM -0500, Taral wrote:
> > If we do subclassing like this:
> >
> > struct Node { ... };
> > struct Value { struct Node; ... };
> > etc.
> >
> > do we still run into the alias problem?
>
> Nope, it appears to get rid of the alias problem completely. But it
> requires anonymous structure support (C99?) to work without changing
> anything other than headers.On that compiler maybe, but what about others? What other problems does strict-alias cause? Anyway, near as I can tell, anonymous structs are not in the C standard and I don't think GCC supports them either... > As a bonus, if we ever change Node, we don't have to update any other > structures... Node is unlikely to ever change, it's been like this for at least ten years... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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