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Re: Aliasing problems in GNU Chill?
- To: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
- Subject: Re: Aliasing problems in GNU Chill?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 17:49:08 -0600
- cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
- Reply-To: law@cygnus.com
In message <19990902102549.A3136@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>you write:
> No. SET_SHORT & friends are unsigned char when USE_CHARS is set, and
> it's unconditionally set. Hence the exception for char* pointers comes
> into play (I believe.)
I've cleaned this up.
> It could use some changes (the above block is dead code with USE_CHARS
> defined), but it appears to be correct.
Be careful if you try to clean up that code since it's actually a compiler
intrinsic -- ie, the compiler knows the ABI for most of the powerset functions.
jeff