Hello all, For many years, Linux (the kernel) has used the -fno-strict-aliasing compiler option to disable certain tricky optimizations that depend upon a very strict reading of the aliasing rules of modern C standards. It turns out that it's quite difficult to write robust code in the presence of those optimizations. I have not researched this issue carefully, but it seems that several Guile bugs may be related to this problem.
Perhaps we should simply add this compiler flag where its available, at least in the short term. What do you think? Here are some links for more info: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/2/26/158 http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-July/036898.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing_(computing)#Conflicts_with_optimization Mark
