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Re: ARM constant folding bug?


On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:24:06PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > Then it seems very curious that the constant folding should fail on this
> > platform. Any idea what may be going on here?
> 
> You're exploiting a hole in the C aliasing rules by accessing a 32-bit int as 
> type char. I tested several compilers (4.2, 4.1 and 3.4 x86, 4.2 m68k and 4.2 
> arm) and the only one that eliminated the comparison was 3.4-x86.

FWIW, rewriting it with the "obvious" union approach seems to give the
desired results on 4.2 arm with and without -mbig-endian.

-Nathan


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