vacation and strict aliasing

[Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>]

I'm about to leave town for a couple of weeks, so I won't be able
to keep up my end of the type-aliasing battle.  But I hope that the
matter isn't just dropped.

As John Vickers points out, there's a lot of free software out there
that is effectively not being maintained, and users or fixers of the
software will require assistance.

I'm kinda hoping that at least someone will be motivated to experiment
with a patch to try to produce some warnings.  Yes, I know it's not
a good thing to ask someone else to do the work, so if no one manages
to get around to this in the next couple of weeks, I'll try some hacking
myself when I get back in town.