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Re: void* <-> char* aliasing rule, C standard or glitch?

From: "Steven Bosscher" <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>
To: "Elmar Krieger" <elmar at cmbi dot ru dot nl>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 19:59:32 +0200
Subject: Re: void* <-> char* aliasing rule, C standard or glitch?
References: <44A6C3A1.9010306@cmbi.ru.nl>

On 7/1/06, Elmar Krieger <elmar@cmbi.ru.nl> wrote:

I searched hard, but couldn't determine conclusively if the C standard
allows to alias a void* pointer with a char* pointer.

Search in the GCC documentation, under -fstrict-aliasing:

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-fstrict_002daliasing-542

Gr.
Steven

References:
- void* <-> char* aliasing rule, C standard or glitch?
  - From: Elmar Krieger

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