The process of reinterpreting an object of some data type as an object of some other data type.
When asking about common undefined behavior in C, people sometimes refer to the strict aliasing rule. What are they talking …
c undefined-behavior strict-aliasing type-punningI have used unions earlier comfortably; today I was alarmed when I read this post and came to know that …
c++ c unions type-punningI'm trying to fix two warnings when compiling a specific program using GCC. The warnings are: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer …
c strict-aliasing type-punningI've been searching for a while, but can't find a clear answer. Lots of people say that using unions to …
c++ c unions type-punningA number of answers for the Stack Overflow question Getting the IEEE Single-precision bits for a float suggest using a …
c c99 unions c11 type-punningThe code below performs a fast inverse square root operation by some bit hacks. The algorithm was probably developed by …
c++ undefined-behavior gcc-warning strict-aliasing type-punningThis is just to satisfy my own curiosity. Is there an implementation of this: float InvSqrt (float x) { float xhalf = 0.5…
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