Union tested for current member in use
问题 Do unions have a control structure to test which member is currently in use (or if it has any at all)? I'm asking this because undefined behavior is never a good thing to have in your program. 回答1: No, no such mechanism exists off-the-shelf. You'll have to take care of that yourself. The usual approach is wrapping the union in a struct : struct MyUnion { int whichMember; union { //whatever } actualUnion; }; So you have MyUnion x; and x.whichMember tells you which field of x.actualUnion is in