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Re: RFC: -Wstrict-aliasing extension
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 03:23, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Also, given that this might be very helpful for user finally switching
> to GCC 3.x, perhaps this even should be mentioned on the main page?
Generally only major changes get put on the main page, and this isn't a
major change. It was only a couple of lines of code.
> Would you mind adding something on that to gcc-3.5/changes.html?
How about this? It has been validated.
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<h2>New Languages and Language specific improvements</h2>
+ <h3>C/Objective-C</h3>
+
+ <ul>
+ <li>The <code>-Wstrict-aliasing=2</code> option has been added. This
+ warning catches all unsafe cases, but it may also give a warning for
+ some cases that are safe.</li>
+ </ul>
+
<h2>New Targets and Target Specific Improvements</h2>
<h3>H8/300</h3>
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