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
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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?