Union element alignment

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The start of each element is aligned with the address of the union itself.

so the individual comparisons in the expression you ask about are true, but the expression as a whole is false unless the union is located at address 0x0001.

The deleted text applied to the following comparisons:

&u.l == &u.i == &u.s == &u.c[0]

The revised version compares distinct pointer types – the pointers should be cast to void pointers.

I was asked to quote the standard – or identify the section of the standard.

C99 – section 6.7.2.1 Structure and union specifiers (paragraph 14):

A pointer to a union object, suitably converted, points to each of its members (or if a member is a bitfield, then to the unit in which it resides), and vice versa.

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