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Some older versions of gcc complain about this line: builtin/fast-export.c:412:2: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing] put_be32(oid.hash + hashsz - 4, counter++); ^ This seems to be a false positive, as there's no type-punning at all here. oid.hash is an array of unsigned char; when we pass it to a function it decays to a pointer to unsigned char. We do take a void pointer in put_be32(), but it's immediately aliased with another pointer to unsigned char (and clearly the compiler is looking inside the inlined put_be32(), since the warning doesn't happen with -O0). This happens on gcc 4.8 and 4.9, but not later versions (I tested gcc 6, 7, 8, and 9). We can work around it by using a local array instead of an object_id struct. This is a little more intimate with the details of object_id, but for whatever reason doesn't seem to trigger the compiler warning. We can revert this patch once we decide that those gcc versions are too old to care about for a warning like this (gcc 4.8 is the default compiler for Ubuntu Trusty, which is out-of-support but not fully end-of-life'd until April 2022). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint


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