> [...] attempting to tell your average application programmer [...]
> that it is necessary to bcopy (or memcpy these days) structs around
> before accessing them, when it clearly works to simply de-reference a
> pointer is just not going to succeed.

I have no intention of making it *necessary*.  I'd like to make it
*possible*.  (Currently it's not, without depending on nonportabilities
like pointers past the ends of objects.)  If someone else prefers to
align the buffer and use the 2292-defined macros, fine, go to.

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