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Subject: Re: [musl] [C23 string conversion 1/2] C23: implement the c8rtomb
 and mbrtoc8 functions

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 01:26:20PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> A cleaner approach might be a union where the presence of the unsigned
> union member yields the alignment.

Slightly off-topic, but do you know if this is a standardized guarantee
or not?  While I'm aware that this works in practice - sometime ago I
was looking into the standard (c99 IIRC) to see if there's anything that
actually guarantees that or not and couldn't find anything concrete.

- NRK