From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2005-04-13 10:34:06
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:07:10AM -0400, Greg King wrote:
> If the second named member of a union is longer than the first one,
> then what happens to the extra space? Is it indeterminate?
As far as the standard is concerned, the behaviour is undefined if you write
to one member of a union, and read from another. As a consequence, it doesn't
matter what happens to the additional space, since reading from it will given
undefined behaviour anyway.
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@musoftware.de
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