Re: -fno-strict-aliasing

From: Andi Kleen (freitag@alancoxonachip.com)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 14:26:46 EST


Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com> writes:
>
> The documentation states that the option -fstrict-aliasing is not invoked
> for any optimization levels because it is new and relatively untested. Since
> the default is not to invoke it, why include -no-strict-aliasing?

egcs 1.1 invokes it per default. That was changed in gcc 2.95, because
it broke so much code. AFAIK the plan is to turn it back on in the next
release (following the lead of lots of other compilers)

-Andi

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