Re: Struct vs Union on TCP/IP code
grocery_stocker wrote
(in article
<1130287766.285401.269310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
> When finding the byte order, why would someone write like the
> following:
>
> union {
> short s;
> char c[sizeof(short)];
> } un;
>
> un.s = 0x0102;
>
> Why use a union over a structure?
Hard to know for sure without seeing the rest, but my guess is
to enable undefined behavior close by in the source code. :-)
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