[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You want to be careful with auto-inline to 64bit compares
> because addresses may only guaranteed to be delivered on
> 32bit boundaries.  Someone reported a panic of ipfilter on
> netbsd because gcc decided to merge a bunch of 32bit
> compares (for IPv6 addresses) into some 64bit ones without
> realising that the address boundary requirements are
> different...

... and the NetBSD folks treated this as a bug in their source rather
than an obviously wrong compiler "optimization?"  That doesn't seem
right.

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