Problem report: Struct aliasing problem causes Thread_Ready_Chain corruption in 4.6.99.3

[Thomas Doerfler]

Joel,


Joel Sherrill schrieb:

... lot of conversation snipped away....

>> - In parallel, 4.7 will be cut with -fno-strict-aliasing
>>
>> - the 4.8 development branch will temporarily use -fno-strict-aliasing
>> aswell, until the code has been revised
>>   
> I don't know how Ralf is going to add this compiler flag.  It might go 
> in as global
> or not.  If it gets added individually in Makefile.am's then it will be 
> possible to
> slowly take it out.  If it is in a single place, it is either in or out.

Hm, I don't think it is a good idea. Assume we have cleaned the
networking code, but the RTEMS chain code is not yet aliasing-clean.
When a networking function would include the chaining, it would break if
we reenable -fstrict-asliasing for networking.

wkr,
Thomas.


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