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From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
To: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Cc: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>, Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>,	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,	Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@inria.fr>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a new type attribute always_alias (PR79671)
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On 05/04/17 20:46 +0000, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
>It does the same as may_alias but additionally objects
>declared with that type have alias set 0, I just don't
>know if I have yet found the right words so that it can
>be understood.  Based on the feedback I have now written:
>
>+@item typeless_storage
>+@cindex @code{typeless_storage} type attribute
>+An object declared with a type with this attribute behaves like a
>+character type with respect to aliasing semantics.

This says that an object behaves like a type, which is a category
error. Don't you mean that a type declared with this attribute behaves
like a character type w.r.t aliasing semantics?

Or an object of a type with this attribute behaves like an object of
character type w.r.t aliasing semantics.