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Re: Repeated types in union

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Repeated types in union
Date 2011-12-13 18:30 -0500
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On 12/13/2011 06:17 PM, christian.bau wrote:
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> I bet more than one person has tried to read the representation of a
> float or double as a 32 or 64 bit integer. Last time I tried, I found
> one way that worked on one compiler and failed on another, and another
> way that worked on the other compiler and failed at the first (one
> method was using a union, one was casting the address of a float to
> "pointer to unsigned int"), but I couldn't find any code that worked
> on both compilers.

Try reading it using unsigned char; if that doesn't work (for
appropriate values of "work"), the implementation is non-conforming.

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Repeated types in union Edward Rutherford <edward.p.rutherford79@REMOVETHIS.gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 22:06 +0000
  Re: Repeated types in union Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2011-12-11 00:11 +0100
  Re: Repeated types in union Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-10 18:14 -0500
    Re: Repeated types in union Edward Rutherford <edward.p.rutherford79@REMOVETHIS.gmail.com> - 2011-12-12 20:09 +0000
      Re: Repeated types in union Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2011-12-12 23:45 +0100
      Re: Repeated types in union Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-12-12 19:48 -0500
        Re: Repeated types in union "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 15:17 -0800
          Re: Repeated types in union Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-12-13 15:29 -0800
          Re: Repeated types in union James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-12-13 18:30 -0500
          Re: Repeated types in union Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2011-12-14 17:40 +0100
          Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 13:28 -0800
        Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 15:04 -0800
    Re: Repeated types in union ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2011-12-12 14:50 -0600
    Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 14:53 -0800
  Re: Repeated types in union Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2011-12-10 22:04 -0800
    Re: Repeated types in union "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-12 09:49 -0800
      Re: Repeated types in union Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2011-12-12 20:09 +0100
        Re: Repeated types in union "christian.bau" <christian.bau@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 15:10 -0800
          Re: Repeated types in union Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2011-12-14 00:24 +0100
          Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 13:46 -0800
      Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 13:42 -0800
    Re: Repeated types in union Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-25 13:36 -0800

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