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2009.10.29 03:54 "Re: Libtiff release soon, please advise", by Edward Lam
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Edward Lam wrote: >> >> I only looked at what caught my eye on the list. Bug 2001 seems like >> important low hanging fruit to do before final release: >> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001 >> > I agree that these issues should be avoided, but don't think that > -fno-strict-aliasing is the answer since it surely makes the code > slower. I did fix many of the aliasing warnings. The CVS HEAD version > only produces these from the library code: > ... <snip> ... That's fine if someone has/will look at these to determine if they're real problems. I haven't. :) > Several utilities produce such warnings, and particularly 'tiffcrop' in > CVS HEAD spews lots of them. It's probably easy to introduce unless we build with the extra -Wstrict-aliasing=2 compiler? > The libtiff from CVS branch-3-9 (which would be 3.9.2) produces no > aliasing warnings from the library, and just a few warnings about > uninitialized variables in some of the utilities. Sorry, I had somehow mistakenly thought that we were looking at a 4.0 release. :embarrassed: > Can you please re-check your builds with CVS libtiff and see if you see > similar results? I'm not sure if this is directed to me in particular. I had not checked in the first place since my usual development platform is on Win64. I trust your results are correct. :) Regards, -Edward