Re: syntax errror

At about the time of 12/4/2005 10:38 AM, Chris Torek stated the following:

> (You can also define new types with "union" and "enum", but the
> latter two are limited; "struct" is not. Being unlimited is often
> a mixed blessing -- "goto" is unlimited while structured looping
> constructs like "for" and "while" are limited -- but in this case,
> doing a cost/benefit analysis for struct vs union-or-enum usually
> results in choosing "struct", at least for me.)

Actually, unions have their place. The ability to take a int and break
it into bytes in quite useful at times.

union __break_int_tag
{
unsigned int integer;
unsigned char bytes[sizeof(integer)];
}

But then portability issues arise when you do this because of the
endiness of the machine.

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