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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:13:14 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: Fixes for strict aliasing warnings from GCC-4.3.1
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> We have a union-based trick we use for UNCONST, maybe that would be
> cleaner to use than all those casts anyway?
> 
> As a bonus, it would avoid the aliasing problems the "right way".
> 
> #define unconst(__v, __t) __extension__ ({union { const __t __cp; __t __p; } __q; __q.__cp = __v; __q.__p;})
> 
> We could define a "as_long" that unions typeof(x) with long.

I know.

One can however use this typedef in macros like ones from include/ieeefp.h. It is not so nice
with union trick. That is reason why I choosed this way.

Andris