Comment by thomashabets2

Author here.

> an unaligned pointer in itself is UB

Yup. Per the "Actually, it was UB even before that" section in the post.

> UB is not on the HW, it has nothing to do with crashes or faults

Yeah. I tried to convey this too, but I'm also addressing the people who say "but it's demonstrably fine", by giving examples. Because it's not.