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Re: Clarification on Gcc's strict aliasing rules
>> I got no diagnostic when compiling it with "-Wall
>> -O2" switches. Is it expected ?
>
> Yes. -O0 implies -fno-strict-aliasing.
I misread, you asked for -O2.
The compiler cannot always detect these situations -- if it could,
it could simply always do what the user expects!
You can try -Wstrict-aliasing=N for different N; levels 1 and 2
probably work. The N is a tradeoff between false negatives and
false positives; see the manual for what they do exactly.
Segher