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Subject: Re: [boost] Review Request: Algorithm.Sorting
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-08 13:45:07
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 13:33, Ross Levine <ross.levine_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Also, couldn't you just use reinterpret_cast instead of memcpy? Or is there
> a problem with that?
>
See the archives. In short, the reinterpret-cast runs afoul of
aliasing rules, and in practice, compilers can optimize the memcpy
down to a bitcast anyways (http://llvm.org/demo will demonstrate), so
it's no slower than the non-standard way.
~ Scott
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