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Bug 259228 - dev-lang/ocaml-3.10.2: QA Notice: poor programming practices
Summary: dev-lang/ocaml-3.10.2: QA Notice: poor programming practices
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High QA (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Team for the ML programming language family
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Reported: 2009-02-16 15:43 UTC by Martin Walch
Modified: 2009-11-11 15:42 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Walch 2009-02-16 15:43:20 UTC 
QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures.
freelist.c:168: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
freelist.c:168: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
freelist.c:168: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

This warnings are introduced by this Gentoo patch:

        # The configure script doesn't inherit previous defined variables,
        # overwriting previous declarations of bytecccompopts, bytecclinkopts,
        # nativecccompopts and nativecclinkopts. Reported upstream as issue 0004267.
       epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-3.10.0-configure.patch
Comment 1 Martin Walch 2009-11-11 15:42:00 UTC 
With =dev-lang/ocaml-3.11.1, I do not get this QA Notice any more. Setting to RESOLVED/FIXED.