On Fri, 31 Jan 2025 at 11:57, Frederick Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals <
std-proposals_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> >
> > If the object isn't accessed while in unaligned memory, why does
> > the value of the underlying bytes of that pointer matter in the
> slightest?
> > They're just bytes, not a pointer value, aren't they?
>
>
>
> Purely as a hypothetical, if sizeof(char32_t*) < sizeof(void*), then
> the pointer might not have enough bits to store the address of an
> unaligned byte.
>

Yes, I understand that. So what? Why should that be changed?



>
> Of course this will never happen -- but the C++ Standard accommodates it.
>
>
But why is it a problem?