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Re: [PATCH] Fix strict-aliasing warning in resolv/res_hconf.c

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Steve Ellcey <sellcey at imgtec dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:12:46 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix strict-aliasing warning in resolv/res_hconf.c
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On 05/19/2015 02:09 PM, Steve Ellcey wrote:

It uses the same casts as before but splits up the assignment into
two parts and that seems to be sufficient to get rid of the GCC
warning.

It's warning about a portability problem that seems to be genuine. Can'twe fix the problem using a union as before? That should be better thantrying to fool GCC into not warning about the problem.

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