On 03/01/11 06:11, Patrick Horgan wrote:
My intention is to write a paper that will make it so that I won't have to keep answering the same questions over and over again;) I'll just point people at the paper. There is one already written. It is "Understanding Strict Aliasing" by Mike Acton
http://cellperformance.beyond3d.com/articles/2006/06/understanding-strict-al...
Best regards, Yes, I've read that one, (which I quite like), and many others, some of high quality and some not quite so much. What mine does that I think is useful is that it points out the misunderstanding that leads to so much confusion. If you have this confusion, you read papers such as the one
On 01/03/2011 11:02 AM, Mateusz Loskot wrote: that you referenced from the viewpoint of your misunderstanding and leave as confused as you came. The paper you referred to, while one of the best, assumes that people understand more than many do, and doesn't dispel the confusions, rather mixing as it goes along information about type-punning and information about the aliasing rules. I hope my paper, by clearly speaking to the two audiences and about what each wants to accomplish, fixes that problem. I haven't found any other that speaks to that misunderstanding, but it's at the heart of most of the posts I see on the web. Patrick