Jack Howarth writes: > My second question is how univeral are the strict-aliasing > rules used by gcc?
They are applicable to every compiler that implements ISO C++. In other words, code that violates aliasing constrains is not legal C++. > In other words, is it safe to say that by correcting source code > upstream to not violate any of the strict-aliasing rules in gcc > trunk that such code might achieve stability benefits as well on > other third party compilers? Yes. Andrew.
