Linux and aliasing?
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Fri Jun 4 12:13:00 GMT 1999
In message < 199906041854.LAA05487@kankakee.wrs.com >you write:
> > In that case, then all release announcements and NEWS should prominently
> > mention the effect of this new optimization and the -fno-strict-aliasing
> > flag, so that everyone has fair warning.
>
> I agree. I am trying to figure out how to alert my entire company of
> this new feature. I am sure we have old networking code and tons of
> programmers that probably aren't used to optimizing compilers. :-)
I suspect you're not totally alone :-) If you write up any kind of summary
with examples of dangerous code I think everyone would find it useful. Any
chance you could post it so that we can put it on the web?
jeff
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