[Ffmpeg-devel] [patch] strict-aliasing support

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:46:33AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 00:01 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > open bug related to the issue
> > 
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16660
> 
> As I understand it, this problem isn't actually considered a bug in gcc,
> and says that stack variables can't have alignment greater than what is
> used for the stack frames themselves.

This is utter nonsense, there's no technical reason you can't align
them. Perhaps its just that gcc is a buggy implementation.

Rich