Compiling gzip 1.9 on macOS 10.13.6 using Xcode 10.1 with clang (Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)), I get this error after ./configure and make:
memrchr.c:71:18: error: cast from 'const unsigned char *' to 'const longword *' (aka 'const unsigned long *') increases required alignment from 1 to 8 [-Werror,-Wcast-align] longword_ptr = (const longword *) char_ptr; I resolved it with this patch: @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ __memrchr (void const *s, int c_in, size_t n) if (*--char_ptr == c) return (void *) char_ptr; - longword_ptr = (const longword *) char_ptr; + longword_ptr = (const void *) char_ptr; /* All these elucidatory comments refer to 4-byte longwords, but the theory applies equally well to any size longwords. */ Mark