[ub] Type punning to avoid copying

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr at axiomatics.org
Sun Jul 28 19:51:39 CEST 2013


Nevin Liber <nevin at eviloverlord.com> writes:

| On 28 July 2013 11:44, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs.tamu.edu> wrote:
| 
|     We shouldn't be doing anything in rash.
| 
| 
| Who is arguing for a rash decision?  This sounds like a straw man to me.

Nevin --

you left out the most important part of my message.

-- Gaby

| As far as I can tell, we are exploring how to meet this very real need of
| programs (efficiently turning a buffer of raw data into something which has
| structure), which is currently being met (either accidentally or deliberately)
| by relying on certain undefined behavior not being undefined in any practical
| sense.
| --
|  Nevin ":-)" Liber  <mailto:nevin at eviloverlord.com>  (847) 691-1404
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