[U-Boot] [PATCH] GCC4.4: Squash multiple warnings due to strict aliasing

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Marek Vasut,

In message <201109261132.43616.marek.vasut at gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > Would it be better to change the __arch_putb macro into an extern inline
> > function instead which would catch these and future cases?
> 
> Yes, but you'll need to do that on a much larger scale. Is anyone up for doing 
> it ?

What exactly are the advantages, and what the disadvantages?

code size / memory footprint?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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