Need help with union trick: summary of replies

[Dan Bernstein]

In article <6497 at gssc.UUCP> timr at gssc.UUCP (Tim Roberts) writes:
> In article <28949 at mimsy.umd.edu> chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> >In at least two articles at least two people write about
> >>ANSI anonymous structures
> >but X3.159-1989 does not have what these people mean.
> My apologies.  How ethnocentric of me. 

Oops, me too.

I dunno nuthin' 'bout no ANSI. I'ze just a po-uh C programm-uh. :-)

Anyway... Does anyone see any correct solutions to this problem that
don't involve the preprocessor?

---Dan