On 10 May 1997 12:12:23 -0400, Paul D. Derocco wrote:

: John Potter wrote:

: >         (double&)x;  // lets pretend that x is a double

: Is that real? I've always done *(double*)&x instead. You're saying in
: C++ I can interpret the bits of x as a double by simply casting it to a
: double& ?

Yep, see 5.2.10[expr.reinterpret.cast]/11 which esentially says, if it
works for pointers, it words for references.

 double x(0);
 reinterpret_cast<int&>(x) = 5;

That's what the draft says; however, one of my compilers actually sets
x to 5.0 while my others correctly produce garbage.

John
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