linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix type-punning warnings

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Message-ID: <20101215230926.GC4455@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:09:26 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: fix type-punning warnings

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 01:00:01PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Flags used during RHEL/Fedora builds lead to a couple type-punning
> warnings:
> 
>   recovery.c: In function 'do_one_pass':
>   recovery.c:539: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
>   ./csum.c: In function 'print_csum':
>   ./csum.c:170: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> 
> The two changes below fix this up.
> 
> Note that the csum test binary output changes slightly, but this does
> not break any tests.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Thanks, applied.  There's also a bone-headed big-endian compile bug
which means I'll be doing an e2fsprogs 1.41.14 shortly.

      	    	    	     	       - Ted
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