Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, what gcc versions support -fno-strict-aliasing? Do we need a
> > configure test for it?
>
> Perhaps ... although it is recognized in 2.95.3 and probably for a good
> ways before that.
>
> It looks to me like what has changed in gcc 3.3 is not the existence
> of the flag, but the fact that -O2 now turns it on where it did not
> before.
Right. I am just not sure how old our gcc compilers are in the field.
We can do it unconditionally and wait for a failure report.
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