strict-aliasing and typedefs

Joe Buck jbuck@synopsys.com
Wed May 14 21:21:00 GMT 2003


Brad Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:
> |  I'm wondering if a Scheme->C compiler
> | can use typedefs and ISO C's aliasing rules to tell gcc that certain
> | memory locations cannot alias each other.
 
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> No, a typedef does not introduce a distinct type:  It just introduces a
> new type-name -- it is all syntactical.

How about one-element structs (with same layout but distinct names)?  Those
can't alias.
 



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