From:	"Tony O'Bryan" <aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Alignment
Date:	Tue, 26 May 1998 18:22:27 +0000
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Wai Teng wrote:

> Can anyone please tell me if memory allocated by malloc or
> __dpmi_allocate_memory is aligned? If so, are they aligned on 2bytes,
> 4bytes, 8bytes or 16bytes boundary?

The Linux man page says that the buffers returned by malloc() and
calloc() are "suitably aligned for any kind of variable."  I don't know
about __dpmi_allocate_memory, though.

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