wip: type punning

Author: Rainyan

src/game/client/hud_closecaption.cpp

@@ -23,9 +23,6 @@
 #include "datacache/idatacache.h"
 #include "SoundEmitterSystem/isoundemittersystembase.h"
 
-#ifdef NEO
-#include "../common/neo/bit_cast.h"
-#endif
 
 // memdbgon must be the last include file in a .cpp file!!!
 #include "tier0/memdbgon.h"
@@ -1691,8 +1688,10 @@ void CHudCloseCaption::AddWorkUnit( CCloseCaptionItem *item,
 	// params.stream is still in ucs2 format here so just do a basic zero compare for length or just space
 #ifdef NEO
 	const auto c = params.stream[0];
-	const auto wideC = neo::bit_cast<uint16, decltype(c), true>(c);
-	if (wideC != 0 && wideC != 32)
+	uint16 punnedC;
+	static_assert(sizeof(c) >= sizeof(punnedC));
+	memcpy(&punnedC, &c, sizeof(punnedC));
+	if (punnedC != 0 && punnedC != 32)
 #else
 	if ( ((uint16 *)params.stream)[0] != 0 && ((uint16 *)params.stream)[0] != 32  )	
 #endif // NEO