Are you sure? My impression from e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13210239/can-a-c-compiler-add-padding-before-the-first-element-in-a-structure https://

Are you sure? My impression from e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13210239/can-a-c-compiler-add-padding-before-the-first-element-in-a-structure https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13210239/can-a-c-compile... is that it’s alright to cast between a pointer to a struct and a pointer to its first member.