Re: Strict-aliasing warnings

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

Wayne Davison wrote:
> That is the intent of using the (void *) cast -- it _should_ let the
> optimizer know that that variable needs to be refetched.  However, I'm
> not 100% sure that this is enough to make sure that the optimizations
> are valid or if it's only enough to just silence the warnings.

Well, one would hope they were tied together...

One would also hope no-one else was messing around with the pointer at the
same time, or there is a bug.  However, with zsh's, er, organic growth it's
hard to be sure.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070


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