Re:GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses
by saagarjha on Sunday August 20, 2023 @08:07PM
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The general problem with this argument is that “do what the hardware does” is actually not easy to reason about. The end results of this typically are impossible to grok.
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Re:GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses
by throwawaylinux on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:21PM
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Not if possible implementations are specified, and especially if you can target machines of particular behavior. Which is of course how you can write endian and bit size portable code.