Home Original page

While compiling binutils-2.17, i get the error "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"

Mayank Kumar mayank@microsoft.com
Tue Jun 19 12:10:00 GMT 2007 
Ys it did work

Thanks
Mayank


-----Original Message-----
From: binutils-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:binutils-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of vamsi krishna
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:28 AM
To: Mayank Kumar
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: While compiling binutils-2.17, i get the error "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules"

Hi Mayank,

Did you try (struct bfd_link_hash_entry **)( (void *)&h) ?

Thank you,
Vamsi
On 6/7/07, Mayank Kumar <mayank@microsoft.com> wrote:
> if (! (bfd_coff_link_add_one_symbol
>        (info, dynobj,
>         &LOADER_SYM[bfd_get_symbol_leading_char(dynobj)=='_'?0:1],
>         BSF_GLOBAL, s,
>         (bfd_vma) 0, (const char *) NULL,
>         FALSE, FALSE,
>         (struct bfd_link_hash_entry **) &h)))------------------------>The error points to this line in all places.
>
>
> The problem is that variable h is of type struct coff_link_hash_entry *, whereas the function pointer expects a variable of type struct bfd_link_hash_entry *.
>
> Does anybody know how to fix the above error.
>
> Thanks
> Mayank
>
>


--
Sincerely,
Vamsi kundeti.





=====
"I want to change the world but I don't have its source code"
=====
More information about the Binutils mailing list