Re: gcc 2.7.2 common subexpression bug with possible kernel

Ulrich Windl (Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 09:07:09 +0100


On 12 Apr 96 at 15:42, Tom May wrote:

> Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de> writes:
>
[...]
>
> >This is a classical aliasing situation; you are modifying *p
> >indirectly via buf. I think almost every compiler assumes
> >"no-pointer-aliasing" when optimizing; otherwise it's very hard to
> >optimize.
>
> When I was looking at the source to cse.c in gcc, it was apparent that
> gcc does not assume no-pointer-aliasing. I suppose it could actually

Then I was wrong.

Ulrich