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    SubjectRe: Invalid compilation without -fno-strict-aliasing
    On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:00:46PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
    > > >
    > > > My personal opinion is (and was several years ago when this started
    > > > coming up) that a cast (any cast) should do it. But I don't are _what_
    > > > it is, as long as it is syntactically sane and isn't limited to special
    > > > cases like unions.
    > >
    > > Well, if that's all you're asking for, it's easy - I don't know if
    > > you'll agree that the syntax is sane, but it's there. From the GCC 3.3
    > > manual:
    > >
    > > `may_alias'
    >
    > Halleluja. It still leaves us with all other compilers unaccounted for,
    > but yes, this will allow fixing the problem for us in the future.
    >
    > Too bad the current gcc-3.3 is apparently not useful for the kernel for
    > other reasons right now (ie the inlining issue which is being discussed on
    > the gcc lists, and that annoying sign warning), but that may well be
    > resolved by the time it gets released.

    We could work around both of these: disable the sign compare warning,
    and use check_gcc to set a high number for -finline-limit...

    --
    Daniel Jacobowitz
    MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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