On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:59:47 +0200 (CEST),
Kjeld Borch Egevang <kjelde@mips.com> wrote:
>When I compile the following function with "gcc -O2" the compiler crashes.
>static float sp_f2l(float x)
>{
> long l, *xl;
> float y;
>
> xl = (void *)&y;
> l = x;
> *xl = l;
> return y;
>}
You are breaking the C rules for data accesses. Compile with
-fno-strict-aliasing if you want to break the rules. Or, and this is
much better, use a union of long and float to "convert" one
representation to another.
