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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libgcc: Mostly vectorize CIE encoding extraction for FDEs
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:07:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a65umwe8.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmv8oibo0s.fsf@suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:03:31 +0200")

* Andreas Schwab:

> On Okt 17 2022, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
>> +      unsigned long long value = *(const unsigned long long *) &cie->version;
>
> Is that strict-aliasing safe?

Should be, the data is never written to during the program's life-time.

libgcc doesn't use memcpy consistently for reading this constant data.
Instead it uses non-char types to read things.

> I guess you wanted to send that to gcc-patches@.

Right.

Thanks,
Florian


      reply	other threads:[~2022-10-17 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-17 12:36 Florian Weimer
2022-10-17 13:00 ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-17 13:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-10-17 13:07   ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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