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Re: Finding Aliasing Bugs
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, zackw at stanford dot edu
- Subject: Re: Finding Aliasing Bugs
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:42:10 -0400 (EDT)
<<Unfortunately, even a warning like that would not catch the tricky
cases where the aliasing is set up in one translation unit, but the
code that breaks is in a different one.
>>
I fear that the warnings would indeed only catch the easy cases, and it is
precisely the difficult ones of this kind that are the tough ones to catch.