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Joe Buck wrote:

> Use -fno-strict-aliasing if you don't want to learn the rules.
> Your code may be slower, but no matter.

It's not a matter of not wanting to learn the rules.  It's a matter
of dealing with massive amounts of legacy code written before the
aliasing optimizations were devised.  This is a change in the C
language that is only a very few years old.  Silently biting people
isn't the way to do it.