Re: [RFC, PATCH] shrink struct vectorlike_header #2

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Stefan Monnier writes:

 > I doubt (*(struct Lisp_Vector **)((char *) v + header_size))
 > is any better.  I guess it just defeats gcc's detection of the
 > problem.

Not true, in general.  Martin Buchholz (IIRC) reported that (at
least for some constructs, for some versions of GCC, and specific
optimization settings -- this was a few years ago) such gymnastics
change the code generated (presumably from something incorrect to
something correct).