Re: (ITS#3755) OpenLDAP breaks strict aliasing rules

[hyc@symas.com]

rhafer@suse.de wrote:

>On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:40, rhafer@suse.de wrote:
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>>The uploaded patch currently contains just fixes for libldap and the
>>client tools. There are also some issues in the slapd code. I'll
>>upload a seperate patch for that later.
>>    
>>
>Find it here:
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>ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/rhafer-2005-06-01_slapd_strict-aliasing.dif
>
I'm skeptical that any of these patches are necessary. In particular, a 
BerElementBuffer is just a character array, and it is always legal for 
characters to alias any other type.

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