[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/7] Add alias-safe union typedefs

[Måns Rullgård]

Alexander Strange <astrange at ithinksw.com> writes:

> On Jan 31, 2010, at 7:13 PM, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>
>> Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> writes:
>> 
>>>> Casts with may_alias were found to work for x264, but the portable
>>>> solution is probably either no strict aliasing or using memcpy().
>>> 
>>> Why would no strict aliasing be more portable than may_alias?
>> 
>> I think he meant writing the code without any aliasing violations in
>> the first place.  Unfortunately that is not an option until compilers
>> get a clue, and my thermometer in hell is still indicating hot.
>
> I meant turning off the type-based aliasing optimizations in the
> compiler, if you're trying to build with some non-GNU C compiler
> that you don't know the may_alias equivalent for.
> Although that's something the user has to do themselves, so it's not
> really a solution here.

If we discover one we can/should/will detect it and handle it
automatically.  This isn't much different from how we handle
declarations of data with extra alignment.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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