Re: Fix strict-aliasing warnings from unwind-dw2-fde.c

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 11/21/2012 12:05 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> We should aim to clean up the code to avoid the warnings while not making
> the generated code worse.  If there is a case where it's very hard to avoid
> the warnings without generating worse code, we can consider using the
> option as a last resort.
So I went back and disabled the old Fedora patch which turned off strict 
aliasing for a handful of files and rebuilt glibc for x86, x86_64, ppc, 
ppc64, s390, s390x.

The only strict-alias warnings that were spit out were the following 
across all architectures:

make[2]: Entering directory 
`/builddir/build/BUILD/glibc-2.16.90-2af1b328/inet'
tst-inet6_rth.c: In function 'do_test':
tst-inet6_rth.c:76:17: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will 
break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]

and this one which was PPC64 specific:

gmon-start.c: In function '__gmon_start__':
gmon-start.c:63:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break 
strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]

So we're actually pretty close to being strict-aliasing clean as far as 
I can tell.

jeff