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Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data

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From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 at 8:09:53 PM UTC-5, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>     The length is unspecified to allow for the fact that implementations
>>     may give array members different alignments according to their
>>     lengths.
>
> Gaaaaaah!

The quoted text is a footnote that appeared in the C99 standard and was
later removed.  If you're going to complain about it, I think that's
worth mentioning.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-21 16:47 -0700
  Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-24 21:20 -0700
    Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-25 11:44 -0700
      Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-28 12:15 -0700
        Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-28 14:25 -0700
          Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-28 16:23 -0700
            Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-28 17:08 -0700
              Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-28 18:09 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-28 20:02 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-29 10:55 +0000
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-29 06:50 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-29 08:52 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-31 10:21 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-29 08:50 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-29 12:25 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-30 13:02 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-30 13:35 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-30 19:57 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-31 12:27 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-10-30 17:02 -0400
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-30 14:16 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-31 08:13 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-31 08:42 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-31 10:40 -0700
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-02 01:45 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-02 06:57 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-02 08:12 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-02 08:54 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-04 07:24 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-04 09:22 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-04 19:48 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-05 09:44 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-07 10:17 -0800
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-11-10 15:37 +0000
                Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-10 09:01 -0800
          Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-28 16:48 -0700
        Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-10-28 16:11 -0700
          Re: How does strict aliasing work with parallel arrays in a union or const-initialized data Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-10-28 16:37 -0700

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