Robert Dinse <nanook@eskimo.com> said:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> > no-strict-aliasing is documented. You should remember that gcc is a GNU
> > program, also with old unmaintened man pages and the documentations put in
> > 'info pages'. (This is due to the GNU manual policy)
> I don't know what the GNU manual policy is but I'm not fond of info. At
> any rate, yes, it is documented there but it's inclusion in the compilation
> flags is nonsensical if the documentation is correct.
At one point in time (during egcs) -fstrict-aliasing was the default, but
too much illegal code out there broke (including the kernel, thus the
-fno-strict-aliasing), and it was turned off.
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