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Re: strict-aliasing and typedefs
Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
> | I'm wondering if a Scheme->C compiler
> | can use typedefs and ISO C's aliasing rules to tell gcc that certain
> | memory locations cannot alias each other.
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> No, a typedef does not introduce a distinct type: It just introduces a
> new type-name -- it is all syntactical.
How about one-element structs (with same layout but distinct names)? Those
can't alias.