From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com>
Cc: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>, torvalds@transmeta.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Linux and aliasing? 
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:43:00 -0000
Message-ID: <2499.928732606@upchuck.cygnus.com>
References: <u9lndw7rr9.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00243.html
Message-ID: <19990630154300.mGX3AIP-nXBpQ3h52O8r6lh_5F4fLatUY7aGyaB0WmI@z>

  In message < u9lndw7rr9.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com >you write:
  > It seems to me that this issue is broader than the kernel; any code that
  > uses casts to, say, get at the bitwise representation of a floating point
  > value is likely to break.
This has been the most common problem I've seen over the years with type
based alias analysis.  However, as I've mentioned before, most folks have
already fixed their code so that it would work with various vendor compilers
that added type based alias analysis years ago.


jeff