[Freeciv-Dev] Re: delta cygwin warning

[Raimar Falke <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:43:06PM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> packets.c: In function `get_packet_from_connection':
> packets.c:415: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
> strict-aliasing rules

I searched a bit on the net. This is not a real error. You should see
hundreds in packets_gen.c and also in the old code. Can you please
check?

Could you please with this gcc 3.3 version time two autogames build
with "-O2 -fstrict-aliasing" and with "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing"?

At 
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/elinks-users/2003-September/000142.html I 
found:

>       # If gcc is version 3.3 (or higher?) it emits lots of false positive
>       # "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"
>       # warnings. Disable them by not doing any strict-aliasing. The
>       # alternative is just too ugly. Thanks gcc guys!! ;)
>       CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing"

        Raimar

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