Re: fix for strict-alias warnings

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > Of course, the linux kernel is aimed at a limited set of compilers - as I
> > understand it basically gcc although it has been made to build with Intel
> > compilers - which makes things somewhat easier for them. What is our target
> > set of compilers? What is our target version of C?
>
> "Pretty much anything that speaks ANSI C" is my usual feeling about
> that. As yet we have not heard of any non-gcc compilers in which this
> is a problem, although you have a point that some compiler somewhere may
> do this and not have a way to turn it off :-(

I now understand the gcc issues. Sorry for getting confused.

I have removed the void* cast from MemSet until we understand this issue
better.

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