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Re: strict-aliasing and typedefs
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU> 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.
|
| I don't think so.
|
| You might be able to do it using single-member structs instead of typedefs;
| but doing that might inhibit some of GCC's other optimizations.
This might be an occasion to use the restrict keyword.
-- Gaby