Re: [boost] aligned_storage in unions

Subject: Re: [boost] aligned_storage in unions
From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-22 14:00:20

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On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Larry Evans wrote:
>   Strict aliasing is an assumption, made by the C (or C++) compiler,
>   that dereferencing pointers to objects of different types will
>   never refer to the same memory location (i.e. alias each other.)
>
> Could you point to the variant code violating this rule?

How about if you re-assign a variant to a different type.  Won't it re-use the 
same in-place storage for a different type?

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