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Re: GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)

From: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
Cc: "Jakub Jelinek" <jakub at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:24:22 -0800
Subject: Re: GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)
References: <20080214114742.GA4442@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz> <6dc9ffc80802141155y2a07df4dl2bd2479cafb18819@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Gcc 4.3 can't compile the current FSF binutils on Linux/ia32.

And this is not a bug in GCC.  The binutils sources actually do
violate C/C++ aliasing rules.
It comes down to taking the address of the field of the union and then
using that variable to access the union which is still a violation.

-- Pinski

References:
- GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)
  - From: Jakub Jelinek
- Re: GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)
  - From: H.J. Lu

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