[PATCH] Fix __ctype_b_loc aliasing violation

Adam Nemet anemet@caviumnetworks.com
Fri Nov 7 19:06:00 GMT 2008


Jakub Jelinek writes:
> Yeah, indeed.  I can reproduce it, a lot of stuff segfaults in glibc
> compiled with current GCC trunk on x86_64-linux, starting with localedef.
> 
> Going through a union is just a workaround for a warning, not real
> fix and indeed this aliasing violation finally caught us.
> 
> Here is a fix, tested with gcc 4.4.  Guess it would be good if somebody
> tested it on Hurd as well.

Great!  Thanks for the fix.

Adam



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