------- Comment #11 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-01-19 00:19 ------- (In reply to comment #10) > My understanding of C type based aliasing rules always was that char, as an > exception, might alias with everything. Perhaps I lived in false belief for a > while, but at least -Wstrict-aliasing seems to think so:
The aliasing rules are asymmetrical. See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2005-11/msg00980.html -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25654
