On 02/07/09 14:34, Richard Guenther wrote:
No, that's invalid. You would have to doextern union { void *foo; short *bar; }; using the union for the double-indirect pointer doesn't help. Or simply use memcpy to store to foo.
Ah, I did not know that. I still don't understand how a reference to a memory location that happens to contain a pointer is different to one what contains other data?
Anyway, I see that the glibc code has, in fact, already been fixed here: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-11/msg00004.html
Thank you. Andrew
