> I ran afoul of these rules the other day when compiling pgsql 8.1 on
> AIX. The configure scripts are set up to look for "xlc" instead of
> "cc", and that command invokes cc with "-qalias=ansi", the ANSI-strict
> pointer aliasing mode.
Can you please explain what exactly was not working ?
xlc has in the past shown warnings that were actually problematic code
that gcc did not show (and the cc variant of xlc also does not show).
Andreas