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>>>> If you malloc, say, 3 bytes, malloc is not required to provide alignment
>>>> for a 4-byte object, say an int.
>>> It is funny. Last time this question came up, someone posted that the
>>> committee believes that malloc result is always aligned for everything! Will
>>> that person please repost?
>> I asked this in a Defect Report. The response is still in balloting, but
>> will almost certainly be that it must be correctly aligned.
> 
> It is unclear to me why a defect report is needed here. Will the ruling affect
> any strictly conforming (or even any "strongly conforming") program?

By simple logic, it could do so only if it (a) amends the standard or
(b) is incorrect.

The ruling will *determine whether* the technique mentioned a few articles
back in the thread, of implementing a variable length struct by malloc()ing
an object of size less than what sizeof returns for the struct, can occur
in a strictly conforming program.
-- 
Mark Brader, msb@sq.com, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto
        MARTIANS BUILD TWO IMMENSE CANALS IN TWO YEARS.
        Vast Engineering Works Accomplished in an Incredibly Short Time by Our
        Planetary Neighbors.            -- N.Y.Times headline, August 27, 1911

My text in this article is in the public domain.