The Amiga C compilers most likely didn't do a lot of optimizations where strict aliasing would matter though (at least from what I remember it was pretty straig

The Amiga C compilers most likely didn't do a lot of optimizations where strict aliasing would matter though (at least from what I remember it was pretty straight forward, a memory read or write in C typically resulted in a memory read or write in assembly). Basically, C code compiled to assembly in the Amiga era looked much more straightforward than the output produced by modern C compilers (with optimizations enabled at least), you could put both side by side and see a near 1:1 relationship between the C code and the assembly code (maybe also because the Motorola 68000 seems to have taken a lot of inspiration from the PDP instruction set).