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Re: type based aliasing again
- To: ak AT muc.de (Andi Kleen)
- Subject: Re: type based aliasing again
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar AT cygnus.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:08:04 +0100 (BST)
- Cc: craig AT jcb-sc dot com, gcc AT gcc.gnu dot org
> Because fixing it often needs major data structure changes (overlap ->
> explicit union), which are often just impossible to submit into a
> stable code freezed production release mainteance tree. Because of
> gcc's lack of anonymous unions in C it usually requires changes to
> every user of that possible overlapped data structure, it is not possible
> to encapsulate it.
I suppose that means we should get the typealias feature into a erlease soon,
so that people can use it to make their code work with gcc's strict aliasing
without large code changes.