[U-Boot] warnings from gcc-4.4 build

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Kumar Gala,

In message <9B5E5AE1-2907-49C2-870F-2D7B2F2DE598 at kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> When building the MPC8572DS_config w/gcc-4.4 I get:
>
> sys_eeprom.c: In function ‘do_mac’:
> sys_eeprom.c:323: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will  >
> break strict-aliasing rules
...
> Should would be turning on -fno-strict-aliasing.  The linux kernel has  >
> been doing this for some time.

Should we not rather fix the code that causes these warnings? Usually
the required changes are just minimal (which does not mean that it is
a trivial task).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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