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Re: [ub] type punning through congruent base class?

From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr_at_[hidden]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 22:56:08 +0000
| We are missing a mechanism to support system programming techniques that
| reuse storage, even for objects that have a constructor

Yes, currently, we are missing well-defined constructs to support external data structures -- that is a problem that many system-level components (OS, network, etc.) have.
Let's do it without compromising the foundations :-)

-- Gaby

Received on 2014-01-16 23:56:15