From:	Ian D Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
Message-Id:	<199702140543.VAA24227@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>
Subject:	Re: [Q] malloc() and assumptions about alignment
To:	fighteer AT cs DOT com
Date:	Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:43:24 -0800 (PST)
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<3303E687.2AF7@cs.com> from "John M. Aldrich" at Feb 13, 97 08:13:59 pm
MIME-Version:	1.0

> >   question 3    ...and what about other non-gcc compilers?
> 
> No, you can't depend on this.

ANSI requires that any memory allocated with malloc() or calloc() be
aligned to the strictest alignment boundires required by the CPU.  That
is, if integers must be at least word aligned but floats must be
paragraph aligned, memory from malloc() will be paragraph aligned.

-- 
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game four of the 1996 NBA Finals...until I saw the 
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