Bug 182905 - Gentoo QA Notice: "poor programming practices" ("dereferencing type-punned pointer" in stdsoap2.cpp)
Summary: Gentoo QA Notice: "poor programming practices" ("dereferencing type-punned po...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kresources
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: groupwise (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Will Stephenson
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Reported: 2009-02-02 18:55 UTC by Martin Walch
Modified: 2009-06-21 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Walch 2009-02-02 18:55:23 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.3 gcc (Gentoo 4.3.3 p1.0, pie-10.1.5) 4.3.3
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

When installing kresources (4.2.0) on Gentoo (amd64), portage complains about some compiler warnings (gcc 4.3.3):

> QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures.               
> /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdepim-kresources-4.2.0/work/kdepim-kresources-4.2.0/kresources/groupwise/soap/stdsoap2.cpp:8082: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules                                                                                                                                                              
> /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdepim-kresources-4.2.0/work/kdepim-kresources-4.2.0/kresources/groupwise/soap/stdsoap2.cpp:8206: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules                                                                                                                                                              

> Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
Comment 1 Frank Niethardt 2009-06-21 22:35:53 UTC 
No such warning in trunk (984831)