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Re: Type-based aliasing
- To: jfc at mit dot edu (John Carr)
- Subject: Re: Type-based aliasing
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:25:31 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: mark at markmitchell dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
> 4b. I wrote code to account for the ANSI-undefined cases which are
> generated internally by gcc, but there is a gcc extension which says,
> in effect, that any type can alias any other type. On learning this I
> gave up.
Well, we could have a pedantic-optimizations option that works
correctly for ANSI conforming programs, but not necessarily anything else.