Re: CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:17:23PM +0100, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> Technically, I think that this is a real UB.
> 
> 6.3.2.3/7
> A pointer to an object type may be converted to a pointer to a
> different object type. If the resulting pointer is not correctly
> aligned for the referenced type, the behavior is undefined.

I don't think this applies here, as the usage was invoking memcmp(),
so explicitly being fine with unaligned data.

This clearly was a false positive and the code is now a lot more
unreadable.

Martin