Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules

On 4/26/06, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote:
> Well, there are a number of fixes, it's questionable whether it's worth
> the effort. In GCC you can mark structures that are aliased to avoid
> the problem (attribute((may_alias)) iirc), but we don't do that.

There's also C99's "restrict".

> 4. Find the option for disabling strict alias and get configure to add
> that.

You'll still lose performance, but the option is "-qalias=noansi".

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