[PATCH util-macros 1/2] Don't disable strict aliasing (-fno-strict-aliasing) globally

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Mon Nov 1 00:18:51 PDT 2010


On Son, 2010-10-31 at 15:54 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: 
> Resurrecting this thread as I just realized it was never actually fixed.
> 
> I propose we actually follow up on these changes. We should remove
> -fno-strict-aliasing from XORG_CWARNFLAGS and only add them to the
> modules that actually require it. We can start out consercatively by
> adding it to the modules listed in the email below (as well as the
> xf86-* drivers that historically had the flag which I didn't check at
> the time of the first email... I know intel needs it)

I still haven't seen any measurements showing any benefits from making
this change. Are there any?


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