Use of pointer casts in the interpreter

[Kresten Krab Thorup]

Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> I've gotten to the point that Kawa now crashes in the Interpreter,
> which led me to look at interpret.cc.  There are a bunch of
> pointer casts in there.  Such casts are unsafe, as the gcc
> optimizer makes aliasing assumptions based on the types of
> pointers.  In general, I think it is cleaner to use a union
> anyway.  

Yes. I had some mighty nice functions that I would inline all over the
place, which is what caused the stack frames to be so big.   So, in
fact the comment about stack frames being too big is out of date.  

-- Kresten

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