On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:20 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > I don't know ... Jeff's demonstration was using obviously wrong C code, > > so I'm on GCC side for that one. > > > > It's only wrong if you are targeting c99 (evolution was written to > target c89 - that may have changed a bit since I've left the project, > but the demonstration code is perfectly legal in c89 and works on all of > the big-name compilers).
Sigh ... I know I'm kind of feeding a troll there, but accessing a Node** as a Node* isn't legal, and just works by luck. > This type of trick is used all over the place. Ouch. > In any case, the workaround is to just specify -fno-strict-aliasing. ... until some other optimisation pass misunderstands that kind of code. Xav _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers