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Re: build failure for ia64 (due to -Werror)
On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 17:23, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The cast was clearly bogus, because it violated the strict aliasing
> rules.
I agree the change did something useful. However, I disagree that the
change was required to make the file work.
It only violated strict aliasing rules because it was compiled with a
32-bit bfd_vma which is wrong. If it was compiled with a proper 64-bit
bfd_vma, as required by the port, then there is no aliasing violation,
and hence no serious bug. There was only a minor issue of the code not
being as clean as possible.
So the problem isn't that the code had a bogus cast. The problem is
that it was compiled with the wrong bfd_vma type. That is the problem
that I think should be fixed.
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