On 19/02/2017 15:52, Abhinav Gauniyal wrote: > Any sort of help would be beneficial to me, I'm open to > suggestions/advice as well If you dislike the optimizations enabled by -fstrict-aliasing (meaning your code is non-portable, by the way) then why don't you simply turn them off, with -fno-strict-aliasing ? (As is done for the Linux kernel.) Regards.