RFH: aliasing problems

[Thomas Doerfler]

Hi,

Steven Johnson schrieb:

>> Steven, it seems you still miss the meaning of aliasing rules, so all the
>> suggestions you give are just tricks to silence compiler warnings, not
>> actual fixes to the problems.
>>   
> Please enlighten me as to the meaning of the aliasing rules, in a way 
> that makes sense given the other parts of the specification with regard 
> to permissible pointer conversion.  I would be overjoyed to be 
> enlightened on this matter. 

Steven, i agree with Sergei's statements. In the beginning I was also
confused with the "pointer conversion rules" you mentioned, because they
do not match the aliasing rules.

But I think from a user's point of view it means, that you are allowed to:
-  assign pointers of one type to pointers of a different type according
to conversion rules.

- You can perform pointer math (increment, decrement, compute the
difference between two pointers) according to these rules

- But you are NOT allowed to access the memory objects through a
type-converted pointer, because this WILL break the aliasing rules.

There are not too many ways where pointer conversion still makes sense,
but things are restricted in C99.

wkr,
Thomas.


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