On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Craig Schlenter <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Other than the immediate gain of "hiding" crbug.com/28749,
>

Which you have a patch (actually two, but one with r+) for, right?


> I think the biggest
> benefit is that end users relying on 4.4 builds are likely to have a more
> stable
> experience in future since it is a safe default.


I don't understand what you mean.  Whichever way we set the flag, we'll be
compiling with it.  So that will be the "safe" thing for others to compile
us with.  Throwing -fstrict-aliasing has the added advantage that it makes
_both_ settings "safe".


> The other thing it buys us is a more relaxed timetable to solve the
> aliasing
> problems if it doesn't break the tree by default.


Do we have other aliasing problems?  If so my opinion changes.

PK
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