Re: fix for strict-alias warnings - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: fix for strict-alias warnings
Date
Msg-id 200310111713.h9BHDkY20385@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: fix for strict-alias warnings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: fix for strict-alias warnings  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Patch applied.  Thanks.
>
> I hope you applied it with the additional changes you asked for ---
> at the very least, cast to (void*) and then to the destination type.
> As-is, the patch simply suppresses all error detection for these
> conversions, which seems a bad move.

I don't have a version that does the double-cast, but I still have the
patch to back out and put in a new one.  Andrew's point was that we cast
to void * in many places, so this case is not unique.  Is that wrong?

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