Build failure with -Werror=strict-aliasing

Bug #834639 reported by Pascal Terjan
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ntrack
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Using gcc 4.6.1, there are errors in ntrack.c where code accesses the first field of a structure by casting it...

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Pascal Terjan (pterjan42) wrote :
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

thanks. i plan to relicense ntrack to LGPLv2 or a non-copyleft open source license eventually ... like BSD 2 or 3 clause or MIT or something. let me know if you are fine that i relicense the code in case i take your patch :) ... not that it has real copyrightable meaning :).

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Pascal Terjan (pterjan42) wrote :

Yes to whatever such license :)

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

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revno: 317
committer: Alexander Sack <email address hidden>
branch nick: ntrack
timestamp: Sat 2011-10-15 20:30:12 +0200
message:
  common: fix strict-aliasing access in ntrack.c module initialization code; thx to Pascal Terjan - lp:834639

Changed in ntrack:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 015
status: New → Fix Committed
Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in ntrack:
assignee: nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

ntrack 015 is available including the fix for this bug: https://launchpad.net/ntrack/main/015

Changed in ntrack:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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