Re: Deferencing type-punned pointers, and how to stop gcc giving you a warning

[Chris Sherlock <csherlock optusnet com au>]

Oh, OK... sorry about that!

Chris

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:59 +1000, Chris Sherlock wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been looking at a few warnings that gcc have been spitting out at 
> > me lately about "Derefencing type-punned pointer will break 
> > strict-aliasing rules".
>
> [...snip...]
>
> This is all useful information, but this is not really a good list to
> send this information to. The bugsquad list membership is a group of
> people working on triaging bugs and managing our bugzilla, etc. It is
> not a developer list.
>
> It would be very useful if you could repost this to the gnome-hackers
> mailing list (and possibly gnome-devel, also) -- that is where it will
> reach the most relevant audience and should spark some discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Malcolm