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> From: "Baribaud, Christophe [JNJFR]" <CBARIBAU AT jnjfr DOT JNJ DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:50:33 +0100 
> 
> >This has nothing to do with the compiler: malloc is implemented in
> >the library.
> 
> Yes, of course, but what I wanted to explain is that it is generally
> dangerous to assume that malloc returns aligned memory when writing
> portable code.

No, it isn't dangerous, since the standard requires malloc to behave
that way.

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