I'm translating a library written in C++ to C#, and the keyword 'union' exists once. In a struct.
What's the correct way of translating it into C#? And what does it do? It looks something like this;
struct Foo {
float bar;
union {
int killroy;
float fubar;
} as;
}
Answer
You can use explicit field layouts for that:
[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
public struct SampleUnion
{
[FieldOffset(0)] public float bar;
[FieldOffset(4)] public int killroy;
[FieldOffset(4)] public float fubar;
}
Untested. The idea is that two variables have the same position in your struct. You can of course only use one of them.
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