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Date 2013-04-09.14:59:40
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> Note that the patch uses type punning through a union

What is the standard and portable way to cast an array of bytes to size_t?

2013/4/9 Charles-François Natali <report@bugs.python.org>:
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> Charles-François Natali added the comment:
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> Note that the patch uses type punning through a union: while GCC allows this, it's not allowed by ANSI (although since we're using a char [], it's somewhat a grey area). An aggresive compiler could optimiza the read/write away.
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