From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject:	Re: one more about memory alloc - free memory of needed amount only
Date:	24 Aug 2000 11:37:29 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:
: 	unsigned char * realptr = malloc(300+63);
: 	some_type * ptr_to_use = (some_type *) 
:            (realptr + (((unsigned long) realptr) % 64));

I think you mean "(realptr + (64 - (((unsigned long) realptr) % 64)))".
Try mind-running it with realptr = 1, e. g.


Right,

						MartinS

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