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Re: finding strict aliasing problems


On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:43:18AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> For those that took the rigorous language lawyer side in that debate,
> note that even an expert programmer like Brad has difficulty getting this
> stuff right.  Clearly making no-strict-aliasing the default was a wise
> move for 2.95.2.

Right, on the other side IMHO making no-strict-aliasing be the default for
3.0 again would be a bad decision - people would be never forced to fix
broken sources so we'd stay with no-strict-aliasing forever.
>From my experience (gcc-2.96-RH defaults to strict-aliasing) the vast
majority of sources we've been compiling is ok, there were a couple of bugs
(like in X11) which have been fixed since then and ATM I'm aware of just 2
packages which have not been fixed yet (clapack and one more).

	Jakub


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