ABI change for ports with byte-aligned functions.

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Sun May 6 14:32:00 GMT 2001


On May  6, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> Can you explain why it is safe for the compiler to assume that some
> bits in a pointer are zero when in fact they might not be?

I can't think of a case in which it would make any difference that
wouldn't invoke undefined behavior.

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