Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:14:43 -0800
On Wednesday 29 January 2025 04:39:00 Pacific Standard Time Frederick Virchanza
Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> All I'm asking for is that pointer arithmetic will be well-defined for
> all pointer types even when the address is unaligned -- and I think
> this won't affect any optimisers. In fact it won't even require a
> change to any modern compilers.
You haven't answered the most important question: why?
What does this allow you to do that it didn't before?
Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> All I'm asking for is that pointer arithmetic will be well-defined for
> all pointer types even when the address is unaligned -- and I think
> this won't affect any optimisers. In fact it won't even require a
> change to any modern compilers.
You haven't answered the most important question: why?
What does this allow you to do that it didn't before?
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2025-01-30 00:14:47