On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:03:55PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:02:29AM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: > > #define LOW_WORD(x) (word)(x) > > #define HIGH_WORD(x) (*(((word *)&(x))+1)) > > You can't do this. I recommend you google for "strict aliasing" for a > number of good discussions of the problem. Thank you Dan, I hadn't really understood what "strict aliasing" was. Regards, -- Nekral