Re: Intermediate void* casts

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 ?

--
Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           [email protected]
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.