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[Benedikt Meurer]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hi Benny,
> 
> I saw this in the commit log:
> 
> 
>>Modified Files:
>>        events.c hints.c misc.c 
>>Log Message:
>>Various fixes to get the beast compiled with gcc 3.3.x and -Wall
>>-Werror.
>>We have to take special care about new ISO C aliasing rules.
> 
> 
> Especially you replace "unsigned long*" by "unsigned char*"
> 
> Last time Jasper changed that, it turned to be a total mess, and we had
> a lot of nasty bugs that took us days to work out.

Its IMHO safe now, Jasper bug was related to a different issue. Using memcpy 
instead of wild pointer arithmetics is one of the safe solutions.

> FYI, I don't care about gcc 3.3 pedantic warnings...

Important notes: see attachment.

> Cheers,

regards,
Benedikt

BTW: I'm currently using the modified xfwm4 w/o any problems. What broke for 
you exactly?

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