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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl>
Cc: Gary Houston <ghouston@arglist.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gcc optimisation breaks guile floating point
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:53:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15725.21637.516981.623205@blauw.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8765xuzq57.fsf@zagadka.ping.de>

mvo@zagadka.ping.de writes:
> 
> This looks wierd as well, don't you think?

well, yes, probably.

> >   *((unsigned long *) z) = 0;
> >   scm_remember ((SCM) z);
> >   *((double *) z) = x;
> >   return z;
> 
> I like this better (with a suitable comment of course).

In CVS.

> I guess that the funny aliasing behaviour applies only to pointers to
> floating point types, right?

I wouldn't be sure. It could happen with all sorts of initializations,
I guess, but I'm not familiar enough with the source code to see which
ones.


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-28 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-27 21:10 gcc optimisation breaks guile floating point Gary Houston
2002-08-27 22:30 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-08-28 20:26   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-08-28 22:53     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2002-08-30 17:44       ` Gary Houston
2002-09-05 21:10         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-09-12  1:46           ` Carl R. Witty
2002-09-13 21:20             ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-09-24 22:32             ` Gary Houston
     [not found]             ` <200209242233.PAA04201@onyx.he.net>
2002-10-02 22:40               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-02 23:34                 ` Gary Houston
     [not found]                 ` <200210022336.QAA18265@onyx.he.net>
2002-10-03 12:33                   ` Marius Vollmer

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