Florian Pflug <f...@phlo.org> writes:
> If we're concerned about helping the compiler produce better code,
> I think we should try to make our code safe under strict aliasing
> rules. AFAIK, that generally helps much more than const-correctness.
> (Dunno how feasible that is, though)
The last time we talked about that, we gave up and added
-fno-strict-aliasing, mainly because nobody trusted gcc to warn us about
violations of the aliasing rules. That was quite some time ago though.
Perhaps recent gcc versions do better?
regards, tom lane
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