Re: [boost] gcc-4.4.0 and boost::optional is giving (spurious?) strict-aliasing warnings

Brad Spencer wrote:

Before I get to the details, let me start by saying that I suspect that these warnings are probably spurious. But, before I go and start asking the compiler folks if they are bugs, I'd like to check here first.

If you take unmodified boost-1.38.0 and try to use boost::optional with gcc-4.4.0 -Wall -O3, you seem to get warnings about strict-aliasing rules being broken. If boost::optional (and boost::function) are really broken, then we're probably in trouble :)

Does it affect boost::variant too?