From: derek@NOSPAM-knosof.co.uk   
      
   David,   
      
   > In C, type-punning via unions is allowed (i.e., fully defined behaviour   
      
   That is not true.  Writing into one member and then reading from   
   another member is undefined behavior.   
      
   There is a special dispensation for what is known as a   
   common initial sequence:   
   sentence 1029   
   http://c0x.shape-of-code.com/6.5.2.3.html   
      
   > in the standards), but not in C++ where the language is expected to   
   > enforce higher-level aspects of the data.   
      
   This is a meaningless statement.   
      
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