Date:	Wed, 5 Jun 1996 09:15:11 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	latorre AT ix DOT netcom DOT com
Cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: [?] aligning value returned by calloc/malloc
In-Reply-To:	<31B35635.738@ix.netcom.com>
Message-Id:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960605091126.25305M-100000@is>
Mime-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 3 Jun 1996 latorre AT ix DOT netcom DOT com wrote:

> How do I align the value returned by calloc/malloc on a particular byte
> boundry ? For instance 64 or 128.

I think pointers returned by `malloc' are always aligned to 8 bytes, so 
it could be used to store even double and long long variables.  If I'm 
right, then why do you need to control alignment manually?

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