[PATCH][RFC] Fix PR36369, clarify may_alias attribute documentation

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Mon Jul 14 18:01:00 GMT 2008


Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de> writes:

>> I think the sentence "These lvalue expressions are treated like having
>> a character type" is a bit confusing, and I don't think it adds very
>> much.
>
> I think this was to match 6.5/7
> "An object shall have its stored value accessed only by an lvalue
> expression that has one of the following types:
> ...
>   - a character type."

That isn't helpful to most readers, though.  If you want to use this
with an explicit reference to the standard, that would make sense.

Ian



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