While at the interview was asked about the posibility to read Integer that is misaligned in the memory. Argued with the guru that you can but he was sure I can not. Here is a proof that I am right:

// pointers_game.cpp - proff that one can read integer from miss aligned memory adress at least at 80x86
// achitecture
#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char * p = new char[100];
for (int i =0; i < 100; i++)
{
p[i] = 'A';
}
p[99] = '\0';
printf("the original pointer = %d\n",(unsigned int) p);
void * a = (void *) p;
a = (void *)(((unsigned int)a) + 1);
printf("the incremented pointer = %d\n",(unsigned int) a);
int b = *((int *)a) ;
printf("the integer that read by pointer = %X\n",(unsigned int) b);
printf("%s",p);
printf("\nHello World!\n");
delete (p);
return 0;
}