[pushed] Fix struct sockaddr/sockaddr_in/sockaddr_un strict aliasing violations
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Mon Mar 9 16:04:00 GMT 2015
> Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:38:53 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On 03/09/2015 11:10 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
> > With all that said, I'm having second thoughts on this ... Per
> > 6.3.2.3 ("A pointer to an object or incomplete type may be converted to
> > a pointer to a different object or incomplete type"), as long as we don't
> > actually access the fields of sockaddr through the "struct sockaddr *" pointer,
> > then the cast should be OK. In the bind/accept cast, it should be the
> > internals of those functions that need the union trick. Gosh, what a mess.
> >
> > So I'll revert the union patch, and apply the original one that added
> > the missing cast to tracepoint.c...
>
> Done. Sorry for the noise...
I should be sorry first ;-)
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