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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