Re: Multiple return values

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr) wrote:
: hrubin@stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
: >[...]
: >This would be the unpacking operation. [...]


: Difficult? Not available? What about something like:


: unsigned u;
: int exp, mant;
: union { unsigned u; float f; } uf;


: uf.f = f; u = uf.u;


/* Sails off into undefined behavior ... :-) */


: GCC will optimise this just fine.


GCC will also allow arithmetic on void pointers,
character strings that run past newlines, and a fair bit
of other nonsense, if you don't give it the "-pedantic"
flag, which illustrates how its authors feel about
standards and portability.


What "[insert name of favorite compiler] will ..."
has to do with the definition of the language is another
kettle of calamari, no?


Mike
| albaugh@agames.com, speaking only for myself.
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