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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:56:22PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> I retested it on gcc 3.2 and it unfortunately doesn't make any difference
> (resulting kernel is byte-for-byte identical). So it looks like with
> current gcc it isn't worth the effort.

*shrug* It's still good documentation of intent.  And one of
these days we might get around to writing some aliasing code
that doesn't suck quite so much.  ;-)


r~
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