Only if you ignore memory layout and understand the UB on your platform. The language does not make as many guarantees as "C is simple" folks seem to think. Thr

Only if you ignore memory layout and understand the UB on your platform. The language does not make as many guarantees as "C is simple" folks seem to think. Throw a sanitizer at any of their code, and you'll see unaligned memory accesses all over the place.