I have a fix for this which I will post to patches - essentially you cast the pointers to (void *) and the compiler doesn't complain. It would be a pity to turn off strict aliasing altogether, as it is known to improve performance in some cases.
Tested on Cygwin/GCC 3.3.1 cheers andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] compile warning > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Manfred Spraul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > The kernel is still compiled with -fno-strict-aliasing - I'm not sure if > > there are outstanding problems, or if it's just a safety precaution. > > > > We should probably do likewise, at least until this is cleaned up, if that's > what we want to do, again probably from an overabundance of caution. > > cheers > > andrew > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
