[coreboot] [Patch] remove some warnings

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 18.03.2010 15:05, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 3/18/10 11:35 AM, Mark Marshall wrote:
>   
>> This will mean that you've got wrong debug info, of course, but it is
>> what you seem to want. The first file defines a symbol, and the second
>> files says that a symbol is defined somewhere else. The types don't
>> match, but the C compiler doesn't know / care about that. 
>>     
> Since the type punning issue is about wrong alignment, I think the C
> compiler does not do the right thing in that case, we just trick it
> around the warning.
>   

AFAIK (and I could be wrong) type punning is not only about alignment,
but the C compiler is free to optimize the generated code in a way that
may break your expectations if you're violating strict aliasing rules.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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