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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 12:08:52 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Wesley Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org>
To:        Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: world breakage in pam_echo
Message-ID:  <20030716120739.R92331@volatile.chemikals.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030716145027.GU1226@unixpages.org>
References:  <20030716145027.GU1226@unixpages.org>

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Christian Brueffer wrote:

> ===> lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo
> cc -O2 -pipe -march=pentium2 -I/usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo/../../../../contrib/openpam/include -I/usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo/../../libpam  -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wwrite-strings -Wswitch -Wshadow -Wcast-align -Wno-uninitialized  -c /usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo/pam_echo.c
> /usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo/pam_echo.c: In function `_pam_echo':
> /usr/src/lib/libpam/modules/pam_echo/pam_echo.c:92: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> *** Error code 1

I was just about to report this myself. The breakage only occurs with
optimization levels of -O2 (and maybe higher). Officially -O2 is not
supported for world, but in my experience there are real problems with
code (warnings in this case) that do not show up until the optimizer takes
a closer look at them.


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