Re: gcc optimisation breaks guile floating point

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> This looks wierd as well, don't you think?

well, yes, probably.

> >   *((unsigned long *) z) = 0;
> >   scm_remember ((SCM) z);
> >   *((double *) z) = x;
> >   return z;
> 
> I like this better (with a suitable comment of course).

In CVS.

> I guess that the funny aliasing behaviour applies only to pointers to
> floating point types, right?

I wouldn't be sure. It could happen with all sorts of initializations,
I guess, but I'm not familiar enough with the source code to see which
ones.


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