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Beginners > What does this warning mean?

#113808 - delbogun - Sat Dec 30, 2006 11:06 pm

I'm trying to convert my old projects from a older version of devkitarm into the newest devkitpro.

I'm getting this warning a lot:
dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

What does it mean?

#113817 - keldon - Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:27 am

Google says: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1923&tstart=0
Wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_punning