[Icc-avr] Packing of variables in union

[Albert van Veen]

Hmmm, I've been pondering about this for a day (not fultime!), and must say:
if it really is bad programming, why does it exist? union that is.
Not that I want to be too philosophical about programming, but stil...

Albert.


-----Original Message-----
From: Johan H. Bodin [mailto:jh.bodin at telia.com]
Sent: Monday, 21 May 2007 7:38 p.m.
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Subject: Re: [Icc-avr] Packing of variables in union


Hi John, Richard,

yes, I know it bad programming practice but I was a litlle bit
curious and I wanted to take a shortcut reusing some old code... ;-)
By the way, if I will ever need to port this code to a future big
endian 40-bit GigaAVR3000++ Super Turbo I will run into a few problems
anyway since 30% of the code is written in assembly language ;-)

Regards
Johan

Richard wrote:
 > What John says, actually, the things that will break the code would be
 > either a) the endianness change, or b) the alignment changes.

John Baraclough wrote:
 >> Sorry, but that is very bad programming practice.

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