Re: [Exim-dev] Code quality measurements and automated check…

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Συντάκτης: Andreas Metzler
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Προς: exim-dev
Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim-dev] Code quality measurements and automated checks
On 2004-06-24 Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
[...]
> I run gcc with as many warnings turned on as I dare;

[...]

As you just mention compiler warnings: exim needs
-fno-strict-aliasing as there are many instances of "dereferencing
type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules", caused by casts
like "(char **)(&foo)" where foo is a pointer to unsigned char
(sourcecode: CSS(foo) with foo being a uchar).
                 cu andreas
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