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In article <1992Aug3.152558.16670@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Steve Clamage) writes:
>edelson@goudurix.inria.fr (Daniel Edelson) writes:
>
>>|> Am I correct in taking this to mean that there is no way to cast a
>>|> structure of known size to a scalar that just so happens to have the same
>>|> size (or vice versa)?
>
>>There's always:
>
>>	struct S s;
>>	int i;
>
>>	i = *(int*)&s;
>
>As I pointed out in an earlier article, this will fail at runtime if
>'int' requires stricter alignment than 'struct S'.

        And, of course, s cannot have the "register" storage-class specifier
(p. 59, American National Standard X3.159-1989).


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