Am Dienstag, 11. März 2008 08:43:03 schrieb Per Inge Mathisen:
> 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?
It could, and it would be just another form of uglyness, imo.--Dennis
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