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Add speaker notes for unions.

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@ -15,3 +15,14 @@ fn main() {
println!("bool: {}", unsafe { u.b }); // Undefined behavior!
}
```
<details>
Unions are very rarely needed in Rust as you can usually use an enum. They are occasionally needed
for interacting with C library APIs.
If you just want to reinterpret bytes as a different type, you probably want
[`std::mem::transmute`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/mem/fn.transmute.html) or a safe
wrapper such as the [`zerocopy`](https://crates.io/crates/zerocopy) crate.
</details>