Mistaken change in GCC (fwd)

[Joe Buck]

> On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 04:43:45PM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> > 
> >   In message < 20001122151553.J820@wolery.stanford.edu >you write:
> >   > All I am saying is that I think we could better support emacs by
> >   > lending enough assistance to the emacs project to make it work with
> >   > the present preprocessor.  I'm fully prepared to do this.
> > But that doesn't help existing copies of emacs that are already floating
> > around.  It would only help new emacs releases.
> 
> How is this different from any of the other ways that new gcc releases
> break existing software?  (Strict aliasing comes to mind.)

In the case of strict aliasing, we fixed the problem by making
-fno-strict-alias the default in response to user outcry.