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If you declare the union on the stack in the callers, and pass by value
- is the compiler not going to be clever enough to still DDRT?

Ah, OK, it should do the thing. I thought you wanted me to ditch the
union altogether.

Some architectures always pass struct/union by address.
Which is probably not what you had in mind.

	David

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