Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Union type conversions Message-ID: <1988Jun16.182158.2424@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <5754@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 88 18:21:58 GMT > So what it boils down to, is whether casting into a union type is > legal and portable... No. You have to use the temporary union variable and assign to one of its members, as in your second example. -- Man is the best computer we can | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology put aboard a spacecraft. --Von Braun | {ihnp4,decvax,uunet!mnetor}!utzoo!henry