Re: type based aliasing again

[Andi Kleen <ak at muc dot de>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 08:49:13PM +0200, craig@jcb-sc.com wrote:
> >Because fixing it often needs major data structure changes (overlap ->
> >explicit union), which are often just impossible to submit into a
> >stable code freezed production release mainteance tree. Because of
> >gcc's lack of anonymous unions in C it usually requires changes to
> >every user of that possible overlapped data structure, it is not possible
> >to encapsulate it.
> 
> That's why we offer -fno-alias-analysis, which is going beyond
> the strict mandate of an ISO C compiler to compile ISO C code.

Apparently not. Or what was that MEM_IN_STRUCT_P thing that cannot be turned 
off again?

Also gcc's first mandate is to compile GCC code. ISO C is only a option :)


-A.