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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2016 18:41:54 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 6:01:25 PM UTC-5, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> We are talking about C and, in C, [] is a pointer operation.  I fully
>> accept that you don't like thinking of it that way but I ask you to
>> consider that refusing to do so may be causing you some trouble.
>
> Given the construct:
>
>     union BLOB64{ uint8_t  as8[8]; 
>                   uint16_t as16[4]; 
>                   uint32_t as32[2]; 
>                   uint64_t as64[1]; } blob;
>
> would a compiler be required to recognize aliasing between blob.as32[0]
> and blob.as16[0]?
[...]

Nobody was talking about aliasing.

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