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In article <C19Juw.7GL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> bbobak@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Brad Bobak) writes:
>In article <1993Jan22.012502.5241@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, diamond@jit533.jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:
>> In article <C17p4n.Dx8@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> bbobak@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Brad Bobak) writes:
>> >[...]
>> The C standard guarantees that whenever malloc() succeeds (which you forgot
>> to check), the value will point to storage suitably aligned for everything,
>> including structs.  So (struct astruct *)store can indeed be used as a pointer

> My example wasn't clear on what I really meant. Lets change the malloc()
>  line to:
> store = malloc(sizeof(blah)+3) + 3;
> /* so that store isn't guaranteed to be aligned for anything, except
>  * chars (is this true?) */

The C standard guarantees that whenever malloc() succeeds, the value will
point to storage suitably aligned for everything, ....
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