Last night, I wrote: > But: As it stands, is the program really wrong? And: Why does > -f[no-]strict-aliasing not make a difference. And should not > -Wstrict-aliasing issue a warning? Oh, never mind. I just realized that this appears to be not an issue of aliasing but rather of class layout. Regards -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>