On 02/18/2011 02:29 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
If I have a char array, and it's always written by the char array, can it
be always reliably read by any combination of short/int/long pointers?
As I understand, the compiler will see byte writes for all types, so
readind shoulg be fine without violating any strict alias rules. Just
can't write the array by any other type than char[] access. Right?
No. You can access anything only as its declared type or character type;
an array of char thus can be accessed as char only.
Not quite: if you write an int to an array of char, you can read it
back again. What matters is the effective type.
Andrew.
