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glibc: Disable type-based based aliasing for sockaddr structs [rhel-9]

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      Upstream in glibc, we fixed a code generation issue with later GCC versions which break certain common coding patterns involving socket addresses. We should consider backporting this commit:

      commit 8d7b6b4cb27d4dec1dd5f7960298c1699275f962
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Sat May 18 09:33:19 2024 +0200

    socket: Use may_alias on sockaddr structs (bug 19622)
    
    This supports common coding patterns.  The GCC C front end before
    version 7 rejects the may_alias attribute on a struct definition
    if it was not present in a previous forward declaration, so this
    attribute can only be conditionally applied.
    
    This implements the spirit of the change in Austin Group issue 1641.
    
    Suggested-by: Marek Polacek <polacek@redhat.com>
    Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
    Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>

      GCC 11 should benefit from this, too, and GCC Toolset even more so.

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