While compiling binutils-2.17, i get the error "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Mayank,

> (struct bfd_link_hash_entry **) &h))) -->The error points to this line in all places.
> 
> The problem is that variable h is of type struct coff_link_hash_entry *, whereas the 
> function pointer expects a variable of type struct bfd_link_hash_entry *.
> 
> Does anybody know how to fix the above error.

This is not an error.  The coff_link_hash_entry structure includes a 
bfd_link_hash_entry structure as its first field.  (See bfd/libcoff.h). 
  Hence it is OK to cast the pointer in this way.

There may be more elegant ways to handle this sort of thing, but the 
code does work.

Cheers
   Nick