https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93910
--- Comment #3 from stephane.goujet at wanadoo dot fr --- (In reply to Mikael Pettersson from comment #2) > IMO the warning is correct. Simply _creating_ a misaligned pointer is > undefined behaviour, and there are machines where it cannot be done without > losing precision. void* / char* is the only pointer type that can point to > any object. (In reply to Andreas Schwab from comment #1) > You are still converting an unaligned pointer to an aligned pointer, and the > address of a struct is the same as the address if its first member (with > suitable conversion). Why would the address of the struct be misaligned? The members which are inside a packed struct can be misaligned. The struct itself is normally aligned, it is not in packed container of some sort.
