From c6c8d4eb53a4092aa076506140d765b628008264 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: neingeist <neingeist@bl0rg.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:11:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add a small union example

---
 .gitignore |  1 +
 Makefile   |  2 +-
 unions.c   | 14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 unions.c

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c2ab9bb..072cf83 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -34,3 +34,4 @@ hello-openmp
 mandelbrot-openmp
 positional-format-strings
 uiowa-threads-my-example
+unions
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1ef5278..bb54214 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ TARGETS=approximate-pi linked-list mandelbrot threads circular-buffer structs \
 				uiowa-threads-example uiowa-threads-my-example \
 				mtrace-test av-variance undefined-behaviour \
 				multibrot-openmp hello-openmp mandelbrot-openmp \
-				positional-format-strings
+				positional-format-strings unions
 EXTRAS=mandelbrot.bmp multibrot.png test-inline-assembly.s \
 				mtrace-test.trace mtrace-test.txt multibrot-openmp.png
 VERYEXTRAS=cppcheck.txt macros.txt tags
diff --git a/unions.c b/unions.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..73a8d00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/unions.c
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+union u_tag {
+  int ival;
+  float fval;
+  char *sval;
+} u;
+
+int main() {
+  u.ival = 12;
+  printf("%f\n", u.fval);
+  u.fval = 0.01;
+  printf("%d\n", u.ival);
+}