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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:46:34 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] C union on ia-64
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Gururaj Ananthateerta <gururaj@cup.hp.com> writes:

|> http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/linuxDDPorting/sld025.htm
|>=20
|> The above link provides an example.

How are the types defined?  Without that information nothing can be said
about it.  The C standard explictly says that it is undefined behaviour if
you access a member of a union that was stored under a different member.

Andreas.

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