Add a better comment to explain what is going on.

llvm-svn: 2139
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Chris Lattner 2002-04-07 08:31:26 +00:00
parent 9a432f739a
commit b99f479f71
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -70,7 +70,10 @@ static double HexToFP(const char *Buffer) {
assert(sizeof(double) == sizeof(Result) &&
"Data sizes incompatible on this target!");
void *ProxyPointer = &Result; // Break TBAA correctly
// Behave nicely in the face of C TBAA rules... see:
// http://www.nullstone.com/htmls/category/aliastyp.htm
//
char *ProxyPointer = (char*)&Result;
return *(double*)ProxyPointer; // Cast Hex constant to double
}