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Re: fixes for type-punning warnings in GCC 4.1

On Dec 19, 2005, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Obviously, Alexandre didn't think it was a valuable service, since he
> tried to dupe GCC into not providing it ;-)

It was valuable, but the code warned about turned out to be a harmless
in this particular case, since it would never run anyway.  If it ever
got a chance to run, it would invoke undefined behavior, and possibly
lead to obscure bugs.

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