[rcfox]

I wish the myriad articles about this interesting hack would bother to mention that it relies on undefined behaviour. Any time you find yourself doing this:

    *(foo*)

you're probably breaking the strict aliasing rule.

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The behavior is defined, if you disable the rule or your compiler doesn't follow it.

[rcfox]

That's the opposite of "defined", in the context of a language discussion.

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It is a good thing that actual results rely on the compiler implementation, not the language.

[rcfox]

Sure, your code will work today, with your compiler. But will it work tomorrow? Or what if your client wants to compile it on their machine, in a different operating system, with a compiler that you've never tried?

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Readme, documentation, makefile(??)