On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's hard for me to give a 100% answer to that one, but GCC has an > idea what memory is reachable from every pointer. So, this won't > clobber memory that's unreachable or has a different type from that > pointer. It probably doesn't matter. > I see. Good to know. > P.S. Please don't top-post on GCC lists. :-) I'm new to mailing lists. Thanks for the heads up!