Hi,

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Dan McGee wrote:

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> In these two places we are casting part of our unsigned char sha1 array 
> into an unsigned int, which violates GCCs strict-aliasing rules (and 
> probably other compilers). In addition, we had two hashing functions 
> defined in object.c. Keep the one function that is "correct" and adopt 
> the other ones to fit.
> 
> decorate.c: In function ‘hash_obj’:
> decorate.c:11: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break
> strict-aliasing rules

FWIW we have the same issue in msysGit, having installed GCC 4.4.0 
recently, but I did not dare to send my "fix".  Yours is much nicer.

Thanks,
Dscho