varargs, 64-bit targets, and strict-aliasing warnings

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Fri Aug 27 10:44:00 GMT 2004


> Pointers to void and char can alias everything, forcing the compiler to
> drop some optimisations.

Pointers don't alias; it's the objects they point to that do.

Only character types can alias everything; not "void types".


Segher



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