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Re:GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses by non-e-moose on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:30PM (#37203552)
Unaligned pointer accesses are for 80386 bozos. Period End of story. If you want to play in 64-bit land, live by the architectural rules. If you do not, your code will likely die. And you need to "Lurn" a lot
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Re:GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses by saagarjha on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:30PM (#37203947)
While illegal in C most modern 64-bit processors support unaligned accesses.
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