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Re: vacation and strict aliasing

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Subject: Re: vacation and strict aliasing
From: Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>
Date: 13 Sep 1999 03:28:54 -0700
References: <199909100054.RAA26268@atrus.synopsys.com> <199909110725.DAA03218@psilocin.gnu.org> <19990913003520.B14917@cerebro.laendle>

Marc Lehmann <marc@gimp.org> writes:

> Has anobdy made a list of programs that brak because of the aliasing
> issue? I only know these:

> - linux-kernel (known and worked around)
> - perl (worked around, but its not clear wether theres a bug)

Not at all clear.  I don't get any test suite failures with a version of
Perl prior to any workarounds and compiled with gcc 2.95.  If it caused
any bugs, they're pretty subtle.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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