The intent is to provide an alternative to the idiom

int i; float f = *(float*)&i;

The usual objection is "but memcpy is slow".
The answer is "your compiler is better than you think".

On 11/4/13, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> template<typename To, typename From>
> To bit_cast(const From& from) {
> static_assert(sizeof(To) == sizeof(from));
> To result;
> memcpy(result, from, sizeof(from));
> return result;
> }
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:51 AM, J. Daniel Garcia
> <josedaniel.garcia_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate what such a thing would be?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Lawrence Crowl <Lawrence_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Did we standardize bit_cast at all?
>>>
>>> It would help avoid the almost overwhelming temptation
>>> for programmers to do the wrong thing.
>>>
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