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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:35:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] C union on ia-64
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Gururaj Ananthateerta <gururaj@cup.hp.com> writes:

|> Anyone experienced (memory corruption ) problems with unions on ia-64.
|> I have found couple of documents which discourages the use of unions on
|> ia-64 in particular.

Please expand.  Unions are an integral part of C, without them you could
not call it C.

Andreas.

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