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From: tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type punning in C
Summary: "register union" good idea, with caveat
Message-ID: <7675@cdis-1.uucp>
Date: 8 Oct 89 20:33:48 GMT
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Organization: Society to Save the Sand Gnat
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
) If your compiler won't put unions into registers, complain to
) your supplier.  
Done, long ago.  Our internal reference shows it as our item
"pfc155.c" of 15-Jan-87, vendor's reference number 0380101.

The vendor's comment?  He said that they don't have to put unions
in registers because "register" is just a hint, and they're free to
do whatever they want to.
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