Strict aliasing can worked around by casting through a union, essentially introducing a new type which can alias any of its component types. Mike Acton has a go

Strict aliasing can worked around by casting through a union, essentially introducing a new type which can alias any of its component types. Mike Acton has a good description of it with lots of assembly examples here: http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/06/understanding-strict-aliasing.html http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/06/underst...