| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr> |
| Cc: | Michael Banck <michael(dot)banck(at)credativ(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_verify_checksums and -fno-strict-aliasing |
| Date: | 2018-08-30 14:45:47 |
| Message-ID: | 20180830144547.ni5x252hyplnhaxq@alvherre.pgsql |
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On 2018-Aug-30, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> As PostgreSQL source is expected to conform to some C standard (unsure which
> one right now, possibly c89 but maybe it is beginning to switch to c99, a
> young 19 years old standard), I'd suggest that the right fix is rather to
> actually remove the aliasing issue.
Yeah, type aliasing is quite a rampant issue in our code and I don't
think there's an easy fix.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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