[Debburn-devel] Re: [PATCH] fixes for aliasing bugs

Lorenz Minder lminder at gmx.net
Wed Sep 27 22:31:15 UTC 2006


Hi again,

Lorenz Minder wrote:
> chains do not solve aliasing issues. (However, the fact that the old
> writing was very obfuscated suggests that maybe the obvious solution
> does not work on some old / weird compiler; some checking might be in
> order.)

Ok, I had some second thoughts on that: It is not strict ANSI C to do
pointer arithmetic on void *, so the fix is not correct either. I think
we have to make buffer a char *. I'll investigate this further and come
up with an updated patch.

Best,
--Lorenz



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