Re: [netlabs #726] -fno-strict-aliasing (fwd)
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:36:56AM -, Josh Wilmes wrote: # New Ticket Created by Josh Wilmes # Please include the string: [netlabs #726] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=726 --- Forwarded Message Date:Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:21:06 +0100 From:Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, that's one solution to Warnock's dilemma :-) No, in the intervening time I've not found an answer to my original questions. Sorry. :-( Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing:http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
[netlabs #726] -fno-strict-aliasing (fwd)
# New Ticket Created by Josh Wilmes # Please include the string: [netlabs #726] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=726 --- Forwarded Message Date:Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:21:06 +0100 From:Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: -fno-strict-aliasing Configure.pl is pulling perl5's C compiler flags in without question. perl5 is defining -fno-strict-aliasing on gcc. 1: As parrot is trying to be as clean as possible in its source, and rules about aliasing (and what a compiler may assume) is part of ANSI C, why do we need this flag? 2: Is it possible to get gcc (or any other compiler) to issue warnings where it detects that strict aliasing would (or might) change the program result? Nicholas Clark --- End of Forwarded Message
