Richard L. Hamilton writes:
> in the face of future maintenance. I would think that the safest,
> most portable, and least tricky approach might be:
>
> struct {
> uint64_t pad; /* force alignment */
> uint8_t uf[IEEE80211_MTU_MAX]; /* array exactly the right size and type */
> } b;
> #define buf b.uf
>
> That of course wastes the storage for pad,
Using a union instead fixes that problem.
I'd still prefer to see a plain uint64_t with a rounded-up size.
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