Re: An aliasing problem

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam,

> On a second thought, this appears like a clear case for an autoconf test:
> check whether the default compiler does strict aliasing optimizations
> and, if it does, try to disable them, and if we cannot disable them,
> fail configure.

Yes. Excellent idea! Even with compilers that we have never heard of, this will
do the right thing: bark at high optimization levels, and be silent when not
optimizing.

Bruno