[Bug c/18287] Unaligned access to fields inside packed records

[rth at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From rth at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-01-04 09:14 -------
Subject: Re:  Unaligned access to fields inside packed records

> Could you tell on what grounds?  AFAICS all fields are still addressable.

Not really, they aren't.  I've argued in the past that we should either
make them non-addressable, or (more usefully) implement pointers to
unaligned data.  But having done neither, the result of the addressof
operator is undefined.


r~


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