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Re:GCC 6.1 Released by qwyxzy on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @11:30AM (#11581274)
> Functions like memcpy or malloc cannot legally be written in C without breaking this behavior

Sorry, I don't understand this. Does this mean that these C standard library functions cannot be written in C without breaking the ISO C standard?

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Re:GCC 6.1 Released by PeCaN on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @12:17PM (#11581780)
Parent is wrong. char, signed char, unsigned char, and void pointers can all legally alias anything. Those functions can be written in standard ISO C.
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