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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:50:54 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 8:09:53 PM UTC-5, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>     The length is unspecified to allow for the fact that implementations
>>     may give array members different alignments according to their
>>     lengths.
>
> Gaaaaaah!

The quoted text is a footnote that appeared in the C99 standard and was
later removed.  If you're going to complain about it, I think that's
worth mentioning.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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