From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] shrink struct vectorlike_header #2 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:12:07 +0100 Message-ID: References: <50766A2C.8070705@yandex.ru> <50994448.6020602@yandex.ru> <509A76F7.3050105@yandex.ru> <509B4246.2050203@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352394799 29617 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2012 17:13:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , Dmitry Antipov , Emacs development discussions To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 08 18:13:29 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TWVfT-0007ru-Ag for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:13:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWVfK-0001Pg-32 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:13:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33211) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWVfB-0001KP-RG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:13:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWVeh-0002q9-Ur for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:46073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TWVeh-0002SH-MY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3Xy9yw0jqtz4KK2H; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 18:12:08 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: +YzNYTNTv/IxGiAIaU8ECpDDBn17JgF0Xr11C2y4bGI= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-108-45.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.108.45]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 3Xy9yw0CS8zbblW; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 18:12:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 7D222CA2A4; Thu, 8 Nov 2012 18:12:07 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Here I am in the POSTERIOR OLFACTORY LOBULE but I don't see CARL SAGAN anywhere!! In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 08 Nov 2012 09:03:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:154738 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > That's so backwards: rather than force people to use low-level fiddly > code, why can't they say "oh wait, you're doing some funny cast, let's > be more conservative with type-based aliasing, as if the code used > char*". You can do that with the may_alias attribute. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."