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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: GCC-4.5.2 Has Serious Problems
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:53:45 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <iukcfd$fpk$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110630210429.fbcd8904.frank.peters@comcast.net>

On 07/01/2011 04:04 AM, Frank Peters wrote:
> A few days ago I posted about a possible problem with a floating
> point test called the UCBTEST.  After examining the source code
> of this test, I see violations of aliasing rules throughout.
> It's hard to efficiently manipulate variables without them.

You can alias them with a char* (a char pointer can alias everything in 
a valid and defined manner).  What you do is use the char* to scan over 
the target type.  And since a char is always guaranteed to be 8 bits, 
it's very suited for doing endian conversions.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-01 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30 21:45 [gentoo-amd64] GCC-4.5.2 Has Serious Problems Frank Peters
2011-06-30 22:30 ` Alex Schuster
2011-06-30 23:34   ` Frank Peters
2011-06-30 23:35 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-30 23:44   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-01  0:04     ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01  0:11       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2011-07-01  0:58         ` Duncan
2011-07-01  1:23           ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01  1:52             ` Duncan
2011-07-01  2:15             ` Ian McCulloch
2011-07-01  4:36             ` Mark Knecht
2011-07-01  5:22               ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01  0:25     ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01  1:04     ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01  2:18       ` Duncan
2011-07-01  2:22       ` Barry Schwartz
2011-07-01  2:43         ` Frank Peters
2011-07-01 11:53       ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-07-01 16:53         ` Frank Peters
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-01  2:30 Ian McCulloch

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