On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Herbert Xu wrote:
What if the addresses are not aligned on a platform where it matters?
Can this at all happen with the sockaddr_in6/in6_addr alignment requirements? It is already a union of uint32_t.
I suppose it can happen if a user is handcrafting his structures, not letting the compiler align properly, but I would say this is a bug if done.
With the size of the union a nice power of 2 (16 bytes) it is extremely unlikely there is alignment padding holes which might eventually cause different alignment of the different types of the union..
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