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From: 6sigma@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type punning in C
Message-ID: <1075@polari.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 89 01:18:17 GMT
References: <475@idacrd.UUCP> <1989Oct8.005808.11039@utzoo.uucp> <7675@cdis-1.uucp>
Reply-To: 6sigma@.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA
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In article <7675@cdis-1.uucp> tanner@cdis-1.uucp (Dr. T. Andrews) writes:
|henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
|) If your compiler won't put unions into registers, complain to
|) your supplier.  
|Done, long ago. [...] 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.

To which your response should be, "I'm free to do what I want also, and
now I'm going to find a new vendor."
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sigma.UUCP