Re: Buffer overflow in cp and mv commands

[Paul Eggert]

Philip Rowlands <address@hidden> writes:

> +use ppc && has_pie && filter-flags -fno-strict-aliasing

That bug report is pretty vague.  It's not clear to me that this is
due to a buffer overflow problem.  It could just be a compiler bug,
for example.  Or it could be something else.  I don't offhand see why
adding -fno-strict-aliasing would fix a buffer overflow problem.