I don’t think that casting a range of bits as some other arbitrary type “is a bug nobody sees coming”.

C++ compilers also warn you that this is likely an issue and will fail to compile if configured to do so. But it will let you do it if you really want to.

That’s why I love C++

  • wer2@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    My issue is C++ will “let me do it”, and by that I mean “you didn’t cast here (which is UB), so I will optimize out a null check later, and then segfault in a random location”