Type punning in C

[Lloyd Kremer]

In article <11242 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>
>	However, C does provide "union" types that can be used for such 
>	purposes.  Load the bit pattern into the integer union member 
>	and extract it via the floating-point member.


Another way would be to back off one level of indirection, and transfer
the bit pattern by means of pointers to the respective objects.

Example:
	float f;
	int i;

	/* assign f */
	i = *(int *)&f;  /* transfer bit pattern from f to i */

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