Union Problem on Sparc

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Nov4.031554.3208 at rice.edu> brad at ds3.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>	union u x,z;
>	(void) doit(x,z);
>	(void) doit(0,0);

Did you try running "lint" on this?  You will find type mismatches.  `0'
is not a union value; it cannot be passed to a function that is expecting
to get a union.  On some machines this accidentally works, but on a lot of
modern ones, it doesn't.  There is no such thing as a "union constant" in
C, so you'll have to assign `0' to a union variable and pass the variable.

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