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Re: Bug#504340: djvulibre-plugin/testing and #504340



* Thomas Viehmann [Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:51:23 +0100]:

> Leon Bottou wrote:
> > On Monday 29 December 2008 18:39:17 Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> So here is something even better (IMHO): Change map_lookup to return the
> >> return value (note that this would be funny if we stored NULLs in the

> > Ok. I am doing that upstream.
> > This is the best way to avoid the pitfalls of the ANSI C strict aliasing rules.
> > These stupid rules basically prevent us from accessing 
> > an arbitrary pointer using a void* type. 
> > I wonder why they did not handle the case of void* pointers
> > in the rules. I did not find any explanation online...

> The curse of post-midnight sending patches had me attach a broken
> version, though, because I had only updated the binaries after the
> initial compile.

> Sorry about all the ill attempts, here is the hopefully final thing.

Ack on this new patch, thanks for taking care of this.

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