Re: pointer conversion

In article <K6mdnV5WebJ360XbnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxx>,
Malcolm McLean <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, to be a successful pedant you've got to be absolutely, precisely
accurate.

Clearly if the pointer is misaligned, adding sizeof(*ptr) will preserve the
(mis) alignment.

No. If you're a real pedant, you will observe that the undefined
behaviour of creating the misaligned pointer could be that the addition
produces an aligned one.

But the example wasn't a misaligned pointer - it was that the addition
produced a pointer outside of the object.

-- Richard
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