Tutorial by Examples: aliasing

In the following code let us assume for simplicity that float and uint32_t have the same size. void fun(uint32_t* u, float* f) { float a = *f *u = 22; float b = *f; print("%g should equal %g\n", a, b); } u and f have different base type, and thus the compiler can a...

This is usually used for renaming or shortening long namespace references such referring to components of a library. namespace boost { namespace multiprecision { class Number ... } } namespace Name1 = boost::multiprecision; // Both Type declarations are equivale...