Hi, With -Waddress-of-packed-member option, GCC gives warning message if address of packed structure member is taken and assigned to pointer, like: struct foo { char a; int b; } __attribute__((packed)); int main() { struct foo foo; int *p; p = &foo.b; // !! *p = 1234; return 0; } This is expected, however, I wonder if there is any way to let gcc know that `p` is a pointer that might be unaligned, so that an unaligned access instruction is generated if `p` is dereferenced? IIRC, microsoft compiler has __unaligned keyword extended for pointer declaration. Thanks, bin