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Re: Fix misalignment


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Fix misalignment
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:00:38 +0200
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for catching that.  I guess I've never noticed it because my
> C library's malloc/realloc always returns a buffer suitably aligned
> for any type?

This has nothing to do with the malloc alignment (which is guarateed to
be good enough), it's the alignment of the buffer _limit_ that matters
here.

Andreas.

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