strict-aliasing error with gcc44 -O2

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

I see the following error when compiling nginx 0.8.29 with gcc44 
with -O2:

gcc44 -c -O -pipe  -O -W -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wno-unused-parameter -Wunused-function -Wunused-variable -Wunused-value -Werror -g -O2 -I src/core  -I src/event  -I src/event/modules  -I src/os/unix  -I /usr/local/include  -I objs -I src/http  -I src/http/modules  -o objs/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.o  src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c: In function 'ngx_http_core_merge_srv_conf':
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c:2859: error: dereferencing pointer 'sin' does break strict-aliasing rules
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c:2853: error: dereferencing pointer 'sin' does break strict-aliasing rules
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c:2857: error: dereferencing pointer 'sin' does break strict-aliasing rules
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c:2851: note: initialized from here
*** Error code 1

gcc44 is most recent one from FreeBSD ports:

$ gcc44 --version
gcc44 (GCC) 4.4.3 20091201 (prerelease)
...

Other gcc versions I have compile it cleanly (4.2, 4.3 and 4.5), 
and quick look at the code in question suggests that it's gcc44 
error as aliasing happens with u_char data and should be allowed.  
I haven't yet checked it deeply though.

Is anybody already looked at it?  It's not really high priority, 
but probably worth fixing even if it's gcc44 problem (at least if 
not requires to much dances).

Maxim Dounin