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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: why use static_cast ?
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Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>
>> Even so, clearly it was expected that unions would be used for
>> type punning,
>
> I'm not sure it's that evident.
>
> [...]
>
> I don't see how it's so obvious that 'union' was designed from the
> get-go with the intent of using it for type punning.

I didn't say anything about how the union construct was designed.
What I did say was that it was expected that unions would be used
for type punning, and that expectation was evident long before the
first C standard.  It isn't relevant to what I was saying whether
unions were designed that way or not.