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Re: [PATCH] fix aliasing for chars in global structures - take II
On 22-Mar-2002, Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
> > Do you have any suggestion on how should I go about that?
> > I am not familiar at all with the standard process.
> > What I am thinking about is posting a question on comp.std.c and see
> > if I can get a good reply. Is that a good first step?
Yes.
> A good first step is reading the whole of the standard (including TC1 -
> [...]. Then all the C99 DRs, then all the C90 DRs. [...]
Or convince someone on the committee to champion your cause.
Posting on comp.std.c would be a good first step to that.
It might also help to run some benchmarks to quantify the
efficiency difference that allowing this optimization would make.
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