strict aliasing and socket structures

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 20 February 2017 at 15:03, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 19/02/17 14:52, Abhinav Gauniyal wrote:
>> but recently I discovered that this method wasn't following strict aliasing
>> rules and was in fact a violation.
>
> How, exactly, did you discover this?  Do you know that the types
> are not compatible?  if so, please tell us precisely what the types
> are.

This is a real problem:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71255