[Vm-dev] getting rid of pointer aliasing

[Nicolas Cellier]

Hi,
pointer aliasing is evil/dangerous on modern C Compiler.
Though it's kind of easy to remove most of them.
For example:

    self cCode:'((long *)addr)[0] = ((long *)(&floatValue))[0]'.

can easily become:

    self cCode: [self mem: addr cp: (self addressOf: floatValue) y: (self
sizeof: floatValue)].

Modern compiler will generate very efficient code for that.
Would you like me to proceed?

Nicolas
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