wrong alias-analysis and strange x86-code

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 24, 2000, Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:

> Well, correct me if I'm wrong...

If you insist... :-)

> gcc-2.95.2 had -fstrict-aliasing by default whereas it is currently 
> not enabled unless you ask for it.

IIRC, only GCC 2.95 (and possibly 2.95.1) was released with it turned
on by default.  It turned out that a lot of code wasn't strict
aliasing-ready, so we disabled it again in 2.95.2 (or was it 2.95.1?)

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