Re: [ft-devel] Bug on PowerPC: Illegal Intruction in FT_Get_Name_Index (worksforme)

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > > Because the FreeType code does some tricks which fail if strict
> > > aliasing is active.  Fixing this is *not* trivial (and probably
> > > not worth the trouble).
> >
> > I may be quite wrong, but I think adding some casts to (void *)
> > do solve the problem.
>
> Please go ahead and provide patches!

Attached!  It was much easier than I thought.  Drops all 323
warnings for me.  The idea is that by casting to (void *),
compiler knows that it should turn off strict aliasing for this
item...

Would be cool too see whether this fixes the Solaris problem.

>     Werner

--behdad
http://behdad.org/

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