Subj : Re: Performance impact of disaligned structures
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Wed Oct 05 2005 07:25 am

mschaef@fnord.io.com (MSCHAEF.COM) writes:

> Does malloc generally make any guarantees about alignment, or is this a 
> platform-specific thing?

From C99:

> The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably
> aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type
> of object and then used to access such an object or an array
> of such objects in the space allocated (until the space is
> explicitly deallocated).
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"Q:      How does a hacker fix a function which
         doesn't work for all of the elements in its domain?
 A:      He changes the domain."
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