On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Giel van Schijndel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just to nitpick a little bit. You cannot downcast, since the memory
> > address points to the child object. Take this example:
>
> Erm to use this example:
>
> typedef struct
> {
> some_type X;
> } a_new_type;
>
> a_new_type Y;
>
> Now my point is that the starting address of Y is _exactly_ the same to
> that of Y.X because Y.X is the first struct member of Y.
Clever, but unless I misunderstand the standard, this casting would
still violate strict aliasing, though?
- Per
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