Re: [Chicken-users] GCC, dereferencing type-punned pointer...

[Sven . Hartrumpf]

On 05 Sep 2003, Johannes Groedem <address@hidden> wrote: 
> I'm getting hundreds (thousands?) of these warnings from GCC (3.3.2
> 20030831 (Debian prerelease)):
> 
>   warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
>   strict-aliasing rules

For 3.3.1 too (this started in the 3.3 branch).

> I'm just wondering whether I can safely ignore them,

>From my experience: yes.
But I typically modify configure as follows:

sed -i -e "s/-fstrict-aliasing/-fno-strict-aliasing/g" configure

-O3 normally implies -fstrict-aliasing, therefore you have to turn
it off explicitly.
I don't know whether performance changes ... Does anybody have numbers?

Greetings
Sven