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Re: [PATCH] fix aliasing for chars in global structures - take II
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
> On 22-Mar-2002, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> >
> > > Do you have any suggestion on how should I go about that?
> > > I am not familiar at all with the standard process.
> > > What I am thinking about is posting a question on comp.std.c and see
> > > if I can get a good reply. Is that a good first step?
>
> Yes.
>
> > A good first step is reading the whole of the standard (including TC1 -
> > [...]. Then all the C99 DRs, then all the C90 DRs. [...]
>
> Or convince someone on the committee to champion your cause.
> Posting on comp.std.c would be a good first step to that.
> It might also help to run some benchmarks to quantify the
> efficiency difference that allowing this optimization would make.
I did post to comp.std.c and so far there was only one answer. :-(
Convincing somebody on the committee to champion this would be quite
hard, as I don't know anybody on the committee.
So if anybody has a personal contact with somebody and would like to
help with this, I'd appreciate it.
The code in question is also used by the C++ compiler.
Does anybody know if the rules in question are also unclear for C++?