[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 3/7] Add alias-safe union typedefs

[Måns Rullgård]

Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi> writes:

>> Casts with may_alias were found to work for x264, but the portable
>> solution is probably either no strict aliasing or using memcpy().
>
> Why would no strict aliasing be more portable than may_alias?

I think he meant writing the code without any aliasing violations in
the first place.  Unfortunately that is not an option until compilers
get a clue, and my thermometer in hell is still indicating hot.

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