Description of problem: There are compilation warnings that are a sign of potential application bugs. They should be corrected in future releases. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.02.70. Older versions affected, too. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile the source code. Actual results: Warnings are displayed. Expected results: There should be no warning. Dereferencing if needed should be done with an explicit cast. Additional info: * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures. * device/device.c:81: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘part’ does break strict-aliasing rules * device/device.c:81: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘part’ does break strict-aliasing rules
Patch for this is in review process: https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/2010-July/msg00039.html