Re: Strict aliasing blog-post

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 03/16/2016 09:57 AM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:

int foo(dbCommon *prec) {
>    longinRecord *prec2 = (longinRecord*)prec;
>    prec->scan = 0;
>    prec2->scan = 1;
>    return *prec->scan;
> }

and it's complement, which are frequent.  While I suppose an optimizer
might not be smart enough to recognize that prec and prec2 are aliases,
imo if this were happening the breakage would be widespread.

As I think about it, "struct sockaddr" and friends are equivalent.  So while this may be a violation, Base is far from alone.