• Mike James <foo bar.com> Dec 27 2009
• Teemu Pudas <tpudas cc.hut.fi> Dec 27 2009

Mike James <foo bar.com> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ai9uc/whats_cs_biggest_mistake/


I write a lot of embedded C for microcontrollers. It would be great to have an
easy means of accessing bytes in an int or short without having to resort to
messy unions. Maybe make it a bit more BCPL :-)

-=mike=-

Teemu Pudas <tpudas cc.hut.fi> writes:

On 27/12/2009 20:29, Mike James wrote:
 It would be great to have an easy means of accessing bytes in an int or short
without having to resort to messy unions.


Don't do that. It's undefined behaviour. Yes, I've been bitten by it.