[PATCH 06/11] Sptr: avoided potentially undefined behaviour.

[Andrew Clayton]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 13:00:46 +0200
Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, p->base is reinterpreting as uint_8[], the contents of some stucture.
> p, the pointer to the union, is really a pointer to that structure.
> p->base, when used in pointer arithmetics, decays to a pointer to the 
> first element, which is the same as a pointer to the union, which is the 
> same as a pointer to the reinterpreted structure.
> And p->offset is just an offset to that pointer, so it's the offset of 
> ptr to the start to the structure (reinterpreted as a uint8_t[]), and 
> it's stored as the first element of said structure.

Ugh, that code definitely needs a comment!

Andrew
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