[menaerus]

I don't think there's a need to explain to me how pointers work, or what to do to make this error/warning go away, since it should be pretty obvious from my response that this is something I know very well.

I was only disputing the claim that ending up with the unaligned ptr is not trivial for given line of code by providing explanation, and counter-example, why this is not possible. At least not in C++ because that's the language I had in mind.

What you're saying is that it's possible to do void pointer arithmetic in C by using the GNU extension - fine, I can't disagree with that.

[jstimpfle]

You corrected me and I corrected you. No need to take personal offense. I don't care what you know -- I obviously took the compiler output that you presented above as a refutal to what I said earlier, and I pointed out why it's not a valid refutal.