g++ and aliasing bools
Daniel Berlin
dan@dberlin.org
Fri Jan 25 08:54:00 GMT 2002
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Robert Dewar wrote:
> <<I've been told i need to come up with a formal proof that given certain
> relationships between C++ types, that may-alias is always determinable
> statically correctly, or that we always correctly determine that we can't
> determine it (IE never claim wrong that things may not alias).
> I've said before, and i'll say again, that i'm not going to do that.
> >>
>
> THat's fine, but the fact that you are not going to do it does not mean
> that it is not desirable or not necessary!
But it's *not* necessary when we've restricted ourselves to a subset of
C++ structs and classes that correspond to C structs and classes!
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