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Re: strict aliasing warning
Joel Sherrill wrote:
Silvius Rus wrote:
I wrote some code (not released yet) that improves the accuracy of
-Wstrict-aliasing using tree-ssa-alias information. The primary idea
was to tell the programmer "go fix the types of variables x and y at
lines ..." when -fstrict-aliasing breaks their code.
How reliable is this detection and warning? Is it ready for testers yet?
The first take is almost ready, but will need to pass peer review before
releasing it (even to testers), so it will be a few days.
I ask because we have found a case where code in RTEMS breaks when
strict-aliasing is enabled. We are having
discussions on how to effectively perform an audit on RTEMS for other
breakages. Right now, the best idea is
Ralf's to diff the assembly generated for each file compiled with and
without strict-aliasing. If there is a difference,
we will have to review it. This eliminates a lot of the code base but
it is still generating a lot of cases to examine by
hand.
I'm curious if your patch will ease this process.
The balance (false positives, false negatives) can be controlled by a
--param option. You can limit the number of false positives for each
type pair, originating statement, function, or compilation unit using
another --param option.
--
Silvius