Subject: Re: Intermediate void* casts
To: None <tech-misc@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-misc
Date: 08/10/2003 20:51:01
On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 06:35:58PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> [...]
> - Removing the (void*) causes gcc 3.3.1 to warn about strict alias violations
> by type-punned pointer dereferences.
Pardon my ignorance, but could you explain what is a "strict alias violations
by type-punned pointer dereferences" ? Is it something new with gcc3 ?
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