I'm encountering the same problem building on an old RedHat 5.0 system,
using gcc 4.1.2.  Was there any fix committed to add -fno-strict-aliasing
for some configurations? (there doesn't appear to be)

Gilbert


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Evan Huus <[email protected]> wrote:

> Probably the simplest fix is to add -fno-strict-aliasing to the build
> flags on FreeBSD.
>
> On 2013-06-18, at 4:14 PM, Stephen Fisher <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When trying to compile Wireshark (SVN trunk) on FreeBSD for the first
> time in a long time, I ran across a familiar error:
> >
> >     dfilter-macro.c: In function 'dfilter_macro_init':
> >     dfilter-macro.c:614: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will
> break strict-aliasing rules
> >
> > However, line 614 has a history of being changed between this:
> >
> >     (void*) &macros,
> >
> > and this (as it currently is):
> >
> >     (void**) &macros,
> >
> > Which is the fifth parameter in a call to uat_new() where parameter
> five's type is "void** data_ptr" and macros is type dfilter_macro_t*.
> >
> > This was most recently changed with SVN revision 48355 that Anders
> committed in response to bug 8416 ("remove C++ incompatibilities")
> according to the SVN log.  Before that, judging by the "svn annotate"
> output in Emacs of a few lines earlier, I changed it from (void**) to
> (void*) way back in 2007 as SVN revision 21330 to "Fix warnings on
> Linux/gcc 4.1.1" and it may have changed at other times as well.
> >
> > What should the fix ultimately be if one way breaks FreeBSD/gcc 4.2.1
> compiles and if it introduces C++ compatibility issues (which I'm not
> familiar with since I haven't been following development for a while
> lately).
> >
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