[ub] launder and aliasing

Ville Voutilainen ville.voutilainen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 23:45:19 CET 2016


On 26 February 2016 at 23:55, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at microsoft.com> wrote:
> | Gaby had a paper that would guarantee that memcpy can be used to reinterpret
> | the bytes of an object of one type as a value of another type; that would seem
> | to fit the bill here. And you can use that to build higher-level operations, such as
> | this:
> I was meaning to update that paper for Jacksonville, because it has to go in C++17, but life happened.
> This that paper is the consensus of SG12 (as we reviewed it in Kona), I will make sure it gets honorable mention in Jacksonville and we have a full wording in the post-Jacksonville mailing for consideration for C++17 in Oulu.

What are you waiting for? Write that paper and come to EWG with it on
Tuesday morning. :)


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