Darren New wrote:
>>   You are accessing a public variable, not a private one.
> 
> Nope. Read it again. What exactly gets set to 27?  Do you think there's 
> a good chance it might by y?

Or, to phrase it differently, do you know of any C++ compiler that won't 
clobber y with that code? Given that the layout of the class is required to 
  match the layout of the corresponding C structure (no virtual methods), 
the only real choices would see "clobber y", "dump core", or "do something 
completely unrelated to the C++ memory model."

... just to clarify. :-)

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