In many ways the C struct is the key data structure in C and it is so much more than just an implementation of a data record found in other languages. It is central to the idea that C deals with bits as it is structs that let you determine what the bits mean. This is obvious to any programmer using C for the sort of tasks it was designed for – systems programming and hardware programming. Unfortunately, this is not a view shared by the programmers on the standards committees and the compiler writers, who in the main strive to make C look like a modern language and try to make it easier to optimize the code. This goes against the low-level appeal of structs and type punning in general and even makes them seem undesirable and dangerous.
For a fuller discussion, see Dive 16 which deals with the scandal of undefined behavior.
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