spockwang questions

• Why misaligned address access incur 2 or more accesses?
• How does gcc decide the wide character set when calling `mbtowc()`?
• Does const reference have external linkage in C++?
• What requirements does non-strict semantics of Haskell have on the evaluation strategy?
• Inconsistencies in smalltalk
• Is the static initialization of global variables completed before `main()`?
• Volatile and multithreading: is the following thread-safe?

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