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Re: GCC aliasing extension for C

From: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>,Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:14:33 +0200
Subject: Re: GCC aliasing extension for C
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On September 18, 2017 4:12:07 PM GMT+02:00, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
>On 18/09/17 10:48, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Is this a property of the char type, or would other types work as
>well, 
>> for example, double or long double?
>
>It has to be a character type, I believe.

It can be any type. All stores change the dynamic type of the memory accessed. 

Richard.

References:
- GCC aliasing extension for C
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: GCC aliasing extension for C
  - From: Andrew Haley

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