From: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
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To: | Taral <taralx(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: ANSI-strict pointer aliasing rules |
Date: | 2006-04-27 17:52:54 |
Message-ID: | 20060427175254.GK29830@svana.org |
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:21:55PM -0500, Taral wrote:
> > If we do subclassing like this:
> >
> > struct Node { ... };
> > struct Value { struct Node; ... };
> > etc.
> >
> > do we still run into the alias problem?
>
> Nope, it appears to get rid of the alias problem completely. But it
> requires anonymous structure support (C99?) to work without changing
> anything other than headers.
On that compiler maybe, but what about others? What other problems does
strict-alias cause? Anyway, near as I can tell, anonymous structs are
not in the C standard and I don't think GCC supports them either...
> As a bonus, if we ever change Node, we don't have to update any other
> structures...
Node is unlikely to ever change, it's been like this for at least ten
years...
Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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