Unions

์œ ๋‹ˆ์˜จ ํƒ€์ž…์€ ์—ด๊ฑฐํ˜•(enum)๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ, ์–ด๋–ค ํ•„๋“œ์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ’์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ถ€๋ฅผ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋จธ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜๋™์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

#[repr(C)]
union MyUnion {
    i: u8,
    b: bool,
}

fn main() {
    let u = MyUnion { i: 42 };
    println!("int: {}", unsafe { u.i });
    println!("๋ถ€์šธ: {}", unsafe { u.b }); // Undefined behavior!
}
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๋Ÿฌ์ŠคํŠธ์—๋Š” ์—ด๊ฑฐํ˜•์ด ์žˆ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์œ ๋‹ˆ์˜จ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๋Š” ๊ทนํžˆ ๋“œ๋ญ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ๋‹ˆ์˜จ์€ C ๋ผ์ด๋ธŒ๋Ÿฌ๋ฆฌ API๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ๋•Œ ๊ฐ€๋” ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๋ฐ”์ดํŠธ๋“ค์„ ํŠน์ • ํƒ€์ž…์œผ๋กœ ์žฌํ•ด์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค๋ฉด std::mem::transmute๋‚˜ ์ข€ ๋” ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ zerocopy ํฌ๋ ˆ์ดํŠธ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์„ธ์š”.