------- Comment #3 from contact at philipashmore dot com 2010-08-06 13:52 ------- Maybe I should add that the 0.6.0-beta1 release in GIT passed uintptr_t - sized structures by value and the compiler spotted the aliasing, which is why I introduced the pointer -> uintptr_t -> pointer hacks to begin with.
Without passing structs by value the compiler doesn't report the aliasing problems. I'm being sincere when I say that if the compiler really can't spot aliasing problems then -fno-strict-aliasing should be on by default. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45204
