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Date:	Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:26:21 +0300
From:	Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject:	Re: Fix for "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing
	rules" error
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Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
> While I was trying to compile djgpp sources from the CVS tree with gcc 4.3.2,
> a couple of warnings like this:
> 
> gcc ... -c ef_scalb.c
> cc1.exe: warnings being treated as errors
> ef_scalb.c: In function '__ieee754_scalbf':
> ef_scalb.c:46: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> 
> appeared.  The value to pass to the macros finitef, isnanf, etc. must be the
> long type union member and not float type one to fix this issue.

Committed earlier discussed patch for sys/djtypes.h and ieeefp.h which workarounds
type punning warnings.

Andris

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