I am probably missing something here, but can't we solve this in C++20 by doing a std::bit_cast<std::byte[sizeof(T)]>?

Also, it would be very helpful if your paper provided a full code example showing before/after (i.e. something that is UB today but behaves differently with the changes you propose).

Cheers,
Timur

> On 29 Jul 2019, at 02:17, sdkrystian via Std-Proposals <std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I've recently started work on a proposal to allow obtaining a pointer to the object representation of an object, and I want to get a sense of what you guys think. Linked in this email is my current draft, if you have time, take a look!
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> https://github.com/18/accessing-object-representations/blob/master/paper.md
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