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authorRichard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>2016-06-29 07:30:31 +0000
committerRichard Biener <rguenth@gcc.gnu.org>2016-06-29 07:30:31 +0000
commit4aa83879c93d2367f5245c94bd2f12c19f486dae (patch)
tree29eb8891c24a3daecbf68e50445cf77606b498d4 /gcc/alias.c
parent36088299955f95ab58a5758cba2f29b84c8fbfbc (diff)
re PR middle-end/71002 (-fstrict-aliasing breaks Boost's short string optimization implementation)
2016-06-29 Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de> PR middle-end/71002 * alias.c (component_uses_parent_alias_set_from): Handle type punning through union accesses by using the union alias set. * gimple.c (gimple_get_alias_set): Remove union type punning case. c-family/ * c-common.c (c_common_get_alias_set): Remove union type punning case. fortran/ * f95-lang.c (LANG_HOOKS_GET_ALIAS_SET): Remove (un-)define. (gfc_get_alias_set): Remove. * g++.dg/torture/pr71002.C: Adjust testcase. From-SVN: r237839
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diff --git a/gcc/alias.c b/gcc/alias.c
index 1e4c4d19e69..dd1dfd38920 100644
--- a/gcc/alias.c
+++ b/gcc/alias.c
@@ -619,6 +619,14 @@ component_uses_parent_alias_set_from (const_tree t)
case COMPONENT_REF:
if (DECL_NONADDRESSABLE_P (TREE_OPERAND (t, 1)))
found = t;
+ /* Permit type-punning when accessing a union, provided the access
+ is directly through the union. For example, this code does not
+ permit taking the address of a union member and then storing
+ through it. Even the type-punning allowed here is a GCC
+ extension, albeit a common and useful one; the C standard says
+ that such accesses have implementation-defined behavior. */
+ else if (TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (TREE_OPERAND (t, 0))) == UNION_TYPE)
+ found = t;
break;
case ARRAY_REF: