Re: Variable length struct hack

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From: Christopher R. Volpe
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 13:56

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In some article (Christopher R. Volpe), i.e. me,  writes:
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>>The standard says that the return value of malloc is suitably aligned so
>>that it can be assigned to a pointer of any kind. I guess they meant `without
>>information loss'. 
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>Since the return type is "void *", it is guaranteed that converting this type
>to any other pointer-to-object-or-incomplete-type will not lose information.

Blech. I just read my post and realized I got that back-asswards. It is
guaranteed not to lose information, but certainly not because of the void*
return type. The alignment guarantees this. Sorry about that.

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