From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: jbuck@synopsys.com
Cc: mark@codesourcery.com, jbuck@synopsys.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: type based aliasing again
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000
Message-ID: <199909110726.DAA03287@psilocin.gnu.org>
References: <199909100720.AAA00135@atrus.synopsys.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00435.html
Message-ID: <19990930180200.lDPOjdx9LyBD8BLJ-DNf0T5_tdOfLmI1o30dco541iw@z>

    > Other
    > compilers are already doing these optimizations.  Thus, portable code,
    > including most GNU project code, simply must not contain these invalid
    > constructs.

People who want to support other compilers might want to remove these
constructs, for this reason.  But not everyone cares about compilation
with other compilers.  Is Linux ever compiled with anything other than GCC?

And then there are all the existing programs which don't have
maintainers...