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<h4 class="subsection">6.1.21 <code>UNION</code> and <code>MAP</code></h4>
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<p>Unions are an old vendor extension which were commonly used with the
non-standard <a href="STRUCTURE-and-RECORD.html#STRUCTURE-and-RECORD">STRUCTURE and RECORD</a> extensions. Use of <code>UNION</code> and
<code>MAP</code> is automatically enabled with <samp>-fdec-structure</samp>.
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<p>A <code>UNION</code> declaration occurs within a structure; within the definition of
each union is a number of <code>MAP</code> blocks. Each <code>MAP</code> shares storage
with its sibling maps (in the same union), and the size of the union is the
size of the largest map within it, just as with unions in C. The major
difference is that component references do not indicate which union or map the
component is in (the compiler gets to figure that out).
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<p>Here is a small example:
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<pre class="smallexample">structure /myunion/
union
map
character(2) w0, w1, w2
end map
map
character(6) long
end map
end union
end structure
record /myunion/ rec
! After this assignment...
rec.long = 'hello!'
! The following is true:
! rec.w0 === 'he'
! rec.w1 === 'll'
! rec.w2 === 'o!'
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<p>The two maps share memory, and the size of the union is ultimately six bytes:
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<pre class="example">0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Byte offset
-------------------------------
| | | | | | |
-------------------------------
^ W0 ^ W1 ^ W2 ^
\-------/ \-------/ \-------/
^ LONG ^
\---------------------------/
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<p>Following is an example mirroring the layout of an Intel x86_64 register:
</p>
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<pre class="example">structure /reg/
union ! U0 ! rax
map
character(16) rx
end map
map
character(8) rh ! rah
union ! U1
map
character(8) rl ! ral
end map
map
character(8) ex ! eax
end map
map
character(4) eh ! eah
union ! U2
map
character(4) el ! eal
end map
map
character(4) x ! ax
end map
map
character(2) h ! ah
character(2) l ! al
end map
end union
end map
end union
end map
end union
end structure
record /reg/ a
! After this assignment...
a.rx = 'AAAAAAAA.BBB.C.D'
! The following is true:
a.rx === 'AAAAAAAA.BBB.C.D'
a.rh === 'AAAAAAAA'
a.rl === '.BBB.C.D'
a.ex === '.BBB.C.D'
a.eh === '.BBB'
a.el === '.C.D'
a.x === '.C.D'
a.h === '.C'
a.l === '.D'
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