[Numpy-discussion] Ia `-fno-strict-aliasing` still required?

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 1:14 PM Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> This is a pretty good article on what -fno-strict-aliasing actually does:
> https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307
>
>
That was pretty much as I recalled. I'm guessing that what changed for
NumPy was going to separate compilation and the wide use of `char *`. All
in all, it looks like we have been lucky and should  continue compiling
with `-fno-strict-aliasing`, it will probably not affect the speed
much. Perhaps what I am missing is looking for compiler warnings rather
than errors...

AFAICT, MSVC doesn't implement strict aliasing, so no worry there (yet).

The gcc manual doesn't say much about `-fno-strict-aliasing`, just

... -fno-strict-aliasing are passed through to the link stage and merged
conservatively for conflicting translation units

But I am going to assume that it also turns off `-fstrict-aliasing`.

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Chuck
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