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Re: [PATCH] aliasing warning in ctype.h

From: Paul Mackerras <paulus at au1 dot ibm dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ian Wienand <ianw at gelato dot unsw dot edu dot au>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:13:27 +1100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aliasing warning in ctype.h
References: <20030320234057.GA17072@cse.unsw.edu.au><20030321005214.O1717@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

Jakub Jelinek writes:

> This is wrong, although you shut up a warning, you actually create
> code which (unlike original) does the illegal type punning
> (and thus the compiler might/will miscompile it).

So you're saying that gcc will warn on code which is actually OK, but
won't warn on code that is actually broken?  Great. :(

Paul.

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