[U-Boot] is -fno-strict-aliasing actually ok?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Aug 22 21:30:12 CEST 2009


Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <118EBB89-F697-4148-A572-838DBB658D2F at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> 
> Is it ok for a cpu family to enable -fno-strict-aliasing?  We seem to  

Please don't. Actually I consider this to be an issue that needs to
be resolved.

> do this on a fair number of the ARM ports and even some of the PPC  
> ones?  This seems to hid some of the warnings we get on other cpu  
> family builds (like 85xx).

Thanks for pointing this out. That belongs on the list of things that
need to be cleaned up.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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