[fpc-devel] alignment warnings

[Henry Vermaak]

On 1 October 2011 09:24, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> Am 30.09.2011 11:44, schrieb Henry Vermaak:
>>
>> Hi list
>>
>> Thinking more about the alignment problems on arm and elsewhere, I was
>> wondering how hard it would be to implement something like gcc's
>> -Wcast-align. Here's a description from the man page:
>>
>> Warn whenever a pointer is cast such that the required alignment of the
>> target is increased. For example, warn if a "char *" is cast to an "int
>> *" on machines where integers can only be accessed at two- or four-byte
>> boundaries.
>
> The problem with such warnings is that one cannot get easily rid of them.
> Maybe a hint would be more suitable.

Yes, probably, you would want to switch this off most of the time, I
guess.  Is this hard to implement?

Henry