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From: Gururaj Ananthateerta <gururaj@cup.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:52:40 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] C union on ia-64
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http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/linuxDDPorting/sld025.htm

The above link provides an example.



Andreas Schwab wrote:

> 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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