Using C++11+ in hotspot

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/08/2018 08:51 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I'd like to see hotspot stop using the -fno-strict-aliasing curtch,
> replacing it with union and/or may_alias, but this is a serious investment.

It's a serious investment, and we'd risk breaking stuff.  At least the entire
heap would have to be an array with elements which are a union of all of the
possible types, and there'd be a byte array overlaid on top of that.  It would
not be pretty.

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