g++.dg/ext/packed3.C

[Nathan Sidwell]

Jan Beulich wrote:

> 
> Why? It's broken. You just cannot embed something that requires
> alignment into something that doesn't guarantee alignment, except that
> for built-in types, the compiler can synthesize the necessary splitting,
> but Foo's assignment operator, in your example, may be totally unaware
> that it might get called with an unaligned object.

People write such code and expect it to work.

nathan

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