[alsa-devel] [PATCH] Sample generation on big endian platforms was broken.

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 17:00 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:51:35 +0200,
> Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 16:39 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:19:31 +0200,
> > > Kenneth Johansson wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Has not worked since commit 3d1fa924906996463ac33cba5b5143f762d913cf
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth at southpole.se>
> > > 
> > > Hrm, sorry, but your version is also broken as doing type-punning.
> > > The code has to be rewritten completely...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Takashi
> > 
> > hmm I think you have to explain this. now it works on both little/big
> > endian without any explicit byte moves.
> > 
> > It did not understand what problem you see.
> 
> You can't cast from a char pointer to another type (e.g. short) and
> read the value.  This is called "type-punning" and doesn't work
> properly with the recent GCC (depending on the optimization and
> code parsing) since it handles strict-aliasing.
> 
> See GCC info for details.
> 
> 
> Takashi

But there is no aliasing problem in that code. The memory is only
accessed(written in this case) using one type.