On 18 Apr, Robert Dinse wrote:
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| On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
| > no-strict-aliasing is documented. You should remember that gcc is a GNU
| > program, also with old unmaintened man pages and the documentations put in
| > 'info pages'. (This is due to the GNU manual policy)
|
| 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?
+--->8
Because in gcc-2.95.0 the default was to enable it always. It was
rapidly discovered that it broke a *lot* of code, so in gcc-2.95.1 and
later the default was changed to disabled.
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