------- Comment #1 from rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-11-22 10:50
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The compiler expects 'y' to be correctly aligned because the ABI says that it
can expect this to be so. If you write a program that then provides an
unaligned value, then the behaviour is undefined and you can get any result the
compiler feels like giving you.
Hint: don't increment void* pointers (it's a gcc extension that permits this
anyway) and then try to assign them to a structure. Malloc provides memory
that is correctly aligned for direct assignment to any structure type.
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rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution| |INVALID
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29938
