I also should mention that we need to build this with
-Wstrict-aliasing (or -Wstrict-aliasing=2) and add
-fno-strict-aliasing for the files that generate warnings.  It might
be a good idea to build the whole thing without strict aliasing, as
the compiler can't catch every case.

I'm getting tempted to just add -fno-strict-aliasing to my default
CFLAGS, as MANY packages generate warnings.  I am wondering, though,
whether this is necessary since if it were that critical, I'm left
wondering why it hasn't been done already.

--Blair




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