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[Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx>]

On Friday 30 of November 2007 04:03:14 Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > +CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing $CFLAGS"                     &&
> >
> > To nitpick: if the user set his custom CFLAGS to include
> > -fstrict-aliasing, I think this wouldn't work, the order is important. So
> > it would be better to have it like:
> > CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fno-strict-aliasing"
>
> I thought of that, but our policy is to always have the user's CFLAGS
> override ours. However, for 'bug fixes' (such as this) we may want to
> override the user's choice.
>
> Do we want the user to always be right or the spell to always work? :)
I know about that policy, so my opinion should be obvious. ;)
A middle ground would be to detect -fstrict-aliasing and fail gracefully, 
rather than later in some obscure way.

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