I don’t think that casting a range of bits as some other arbitrary type “is a bug nobody sees coming”.
C++ compilers also warn you that this is likely an issue and will fail to compile if configured to do so. But it will let you do it if you really want to.
That’s why I love C++
People just think that applying arbitrary rules somehow makes software magically more secure, like with rust, as if the compiler won’t just “let you” do the exact same fucking thing if you type the
unsafekeyword