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Re: Linux and aliasing?
- To: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:08:15 -0600
- cc: jbuck at Synopsys dot COM, chip at perlsupport dot com, craig at jcb-sc dot com, davem at redhat dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199906041854.LAA05487@kankakee.wrs.com>you write:
> > In that case, then all release announcements and NEWS should prominently
> > mention the effect of this new optimization and the -fno-strict-aliasing
> > flag, so that everyone has fair warning.
>
> I agree. I am trying to figure out how to alert my entire company of
> this new feature. I am sure we have old networking code and tons of
> programmers that probably aren't used to optimizing compilers. :-)
I suspect you're not totally alone :-) If you write up any kind of summary
with examples of dangerous code I think everyone would find it useful. Any
chance you could post it so that we can put it on the web?
jeff