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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> 
> > > > 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...

Thanks!  But this is for FreeType 1 while we are talking about
FreeType 2.


    Werner