CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Thu Jan 20 13:44:58 PST 2005


Paul Mather said:

> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 19:17 +0000, Chris wrote:
>> what does -fno-strict-alias do? I cannot find it in man gcc
>
> It is a truncation of "-fno-strict-aliasing".  The flag does not appear
> to be described in the gcc man page, but is documented in the gcc info
> page (search for "-fstrict-aliasing").  To quote the info page,
> -fstrict-aliasing "allows the compiler to assume the strictest aliasing
> rules applicable to the language being compiled. ..."

Wouldn't we want strict aliasing then?




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