[Libvir] [PATCH] libvirt.c: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

[Richard W.M. Jones]

I'm currently trying to get libvirt to compile with -Werror.  One 
problem which came up early is the warning in $SUBJECT.  The gcc info 
page (see -fstrict-aliasing) is pretty unclear about what exactly causes 
this problem, so the attached patch rewrites the code quite 
conservatively to avoid the problem.

Rich.

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