------- Comment #79 from ian at airs dot com 2007-05-18 07:25 ------- The test case in comment #71 doesn't use placement new either.
This PR was originally about placement new. I think there is general agreement thta placement new needs to avoid aliasing problem. I don't think there is general agreement that arbitrary type casting needs to avoid aliasing problems. Have you found any problems with my most recent patch and placement new? -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29286