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Re: [www-patch] bugs.html rewrite, part 5: new section about aliasing problems
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- Cc: jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 10:19:30 -0700
- Subject: Re: [www-patch] bugs.html rewrite, part 5: new section about aliasing problems
- References: <200309301701.h8UH1XsV028226@relay.rwth-aachen.de>
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:01:36PM +0200, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> On 24 Sep, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Volker Reichelt wrote:
> >
> >> The following patch adds a section about aliasing problems at the
> >> beginning of the C non-bugs part of bugs.html.
> >
> > I think this section should mention that -Wall will now warn for some -
> > but not all - cases of this problem.
>
> Good point.
>
> I just added a paragraph
>
> <p>The option <code>-Wstrict-aliasing</code> (which is included in
> <code>-Wall</code>) warns about some - but not all - cases of violation
> of aliasing rules when <code>-fstrict-aliasing</code> is active.</p>
>
> See below for the complete patch.
> Ok to commit?
Yes, with the exception of one formatting nit that appears in other
places in this file as well. A period at the end of a sentence should
be followed by two spaces, not one.
Janis