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Re: [PATCH] "Fix" PR39497, dfp.c is not C


On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Diego Novillo wrote:

> 2009/3/24 Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>:
> 
> > This "fixes" the loads of alias warnings we now see with compiling
> > dfp.c by building it with -fno-strict-aliasing instead of just
> > ignoring errors with -Wno-error.
> >
> > Bootstrap / regtest in progress. ÂAny objections?
> 
> None from me.  I guess they can't be type cast away, right?

You can replace every 2nd line of that file with a memcpy.  With
some local mods on a-i branch we now "miscompile" dfp.c and all
dfp tests fail.

Thus, if the maintainers of dfp.c want to fix it, fine.  It looked
too much excercising for me.

Richard.

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