Casting one C structure into another

Question

I have two identical (but differently named) C structures:

typedef struct {
      double x;
      double y;
      double z;
} CMAcceleration;


typedef struc         


        

Answer 1

This is achieved easily through a union:

typedef struct {
      double x;
      double y;
      double z;
} CMAcceleration;

typedef struct {
    double x;
    double y;
    double z;
} Vector3d;

typedef union {
    CMAcceleration acceleration;
    Vector3d vector;
} view;

int main() {
    view v = (view) (Vector3d) {1.0, 2.0, 3.0};
    CMAcceleration accel = v.acceleration;
    printf("proof: %g %g %g\n", accel.x, accel.y, accel.z);
}