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From: rich@hal.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: problem with unions (query)
Message-ID: <175@hal.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 11:51:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: hal.175
Posted: Wed Jun  4 11:51:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Jun-86 00:49:48 EDT
Reply-To: rich@hal.UUCP (K. Richard Magill)
Organization: CWRU Dept. Epid. & Biostat., Cleveland, OH
Lines: 28
Keywords: unions casts types return

I have a problem saying what I want to say.  The basics look like:
(vax 4.2)

typedef union {
	char *c;
	int *i;
} U;

U f()
{
	return("mumble");
}

Which naturally is of the wrong type but casting the (char *) into
(U) doesn't work either.  This works but is ucky and -O doesn't rip out "one".

U f()
{
	U one;

	one.c = "mumble";
	return(one);
}

Am I missing something obvious?

K. Richard Magill
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