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-Always use strictest alignment type for arbitrary pointers.
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int *loop_ptr; |
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int * int_ptr; |
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int *loopFunction(int *v_pointer) { |
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return v_pointer; |
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} |
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int_ptr = loopFunction(loop_ptr); |
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Risk Assessment
Accessing a pointer that is no longer on the correct access boundary can cause a program to crash, give wrong information or have slow pointer accesses (if the architecture does not care about alignment).
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