Jan Beulich wrote:
Why? It's broken. You just cannot embed something that requires alignment into something that doesn't guarantee alignment, except that for built-in types, the compiler can synthesize the necessary splitting, but Foo's assignment operator, in your example, may be totally unaware that it might get called with an unaligned object.
People write such code and expect it to work. nathan -- Nathan Sidwell :: http://www.codesourcery.com :: CodeSourcery LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: http://www.planetfall.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
