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		non-e-moose on Aug 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC always assumes aligned pointer accesses (2020) 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

saagarjha on Aug 20, 2023 [–]

While illegal in C most modern 64-bit processors support unaligned accesses.

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