On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:04:16PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > Shaun, want to do up an entry in the manual describing this? We have > known about this for years and years, but, we don't do a good job > communicating it to users. Essentially, & doesn't work as one would > expect on unaligned data, as it produces a pointer to an aligned > object instead of a pointer to unaligned object.
I suppose we could make & on an unaligned project return a void*. That isn't really right, but it would at least prevent the cases that we know don't work from compiling.