C++11 – Enumeration Aliasing

[molw...@googlemail.com]

Recently I've been using C++11 enumerations to provide a byte pointer with
stronger strict-aliasing properties. Specifically, I've been using the
definition:

enum byte : uint8_t {};

My reading of the strict-aliasing rules supports the behaviour modern compilers
exhibit in this regard; specifically, byte* aliases only other byte pointers and
raw character points. I'm looking for a second opinion here with respect to the
strict-aliasing rules � additionally, I'd like to know if I'm implicitly relying
on any undefined or implementation-specific behaviour here I may have overlooked.
Thanks in advance,

-molw5


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