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In article <1995Sep1.191718@airvax.air.ups.com>,
 <air1jxy@airvax.air.ups.com> wrote:
>the one on Stroustrup's book (page 473). The following piece of code
>demostrate the problem. Compile and run it. It may crash on you.
>It crashed on us on a HP735 with HPUX9.01 and CFront 3.0.
>
[snip]
>{
>  char* c = (char*) malloc(1024);
>  double *db = (double*) (c + 4);
>}

    The HP 715 I use, (and the Sun Sparc 10 I have access to) both 
    require double-word alignment for double types, which for both
    of these machines sizeof(double) is 8.  Notice the problem
    will not occur for (c+0), (c+8), (c+16), etc.

    This has nothing to do with the compiler, but is rather a 
    feature of the architecture you are using.

    Shaun