Bug 1355

Summary:	pointer arithmetic/gcc strict-aliasing warnings
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Darren Tucker <dtucker>
Component:	Miscellaneous	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	minor	Keywords:	patch
Priority:	P2
Version:	-current
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
URL:	http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2007-April/025274.html
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	1353

Description Darren Tucker 2007-08-16 09:41:03 AEST

Recent versions of gcc emit a the following warnings:

readconf.c: In function 'process_config_line':
readconf.c:695: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
servconf.c: In function 'process_server_config_line':
servconf.c:979: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
servconf.c:990: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break 
strict-aliasing rules

Dmitry V. Levin has posted a diff to fix these (see URL).

Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2007-12-31 21:42:18 AEDT

This has been applied and will be in 4.8.

Comment 2 Damien Miller 2008-03-31 15:21:08 AEDT

Fix shipped in 4.9/4.9p1 release.