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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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<<On which platform?  The answer is:  it depends.
On my particular platform, the compliler "t_word".
It has previously seen, "typedef int t_word;".
On my Solaris 2.8 box, it would be a 64 bit sized bucket.
>>

Right, and clearly for this definition yoru code was incorrect from the
standard. If you don't like this semantics,clearly document that you are not writing
in C, and turn off strict aliasing.