Bug 99350

Summary: libdrm-2.4.74/xf86drmMode.c:904:15: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
Product: DRI Reporter: Matthew Thode <mthode>
Component: libdrmAssignee: Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: XOrg git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605290
Whiteboard:
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Description Matthew Thode 2017-01-10 19:01:00 UTC 
not much to say other than it fails to work on some stricter QA checks
Comment 1 Thierry Reding 2017-01-18 07:56:31 UTC 
This should be fixed by the following commit that I just pushed to master:

commit ecc2a097294dcc773dbe5e2a989f180bedb89b69
Author: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Date:   Mon Apr 13 11:36:59 2015 +0200

    xf86drm: Fix type-punned pointer build warning
    
          CC       libdrm_la-xf86drmMode.lo
        ../xf86drmMode.c: In function 'drmHandleEvent':
        ../xf86drmMode.c:854:15: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
           e = (struct drm_event *)(&buffer[i]);
                       ^
    
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99350
    Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

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