> On Mar 28, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > ... > The problem is that “reading” is either not defined, or the existing > flatly contradicts existing practice. > > For example, if p is a pointer to a struct, will the expression &p->m > read *p?
Presumably the offset of m is substantially larger than 0? If so, my answer would be "it had better not". Does any compiler treat that statement as an access to *p ? paul