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Re: [tree-ssa] mainline->branch merge status

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:25:28AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > So does the other way;  *(void **)__o->next_free = ... is exactly what you
> > can't do.
> 
> I don't follow.  __o->next_free is a character pointer, thus can alias all
> other pointers.

No, that's not correct.  "char" can alias any other data; "char *" is
not so unconstrained.  The code above is in fact broken.


r~
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