From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Thu,  6 Jun 96 04:19:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: [?] aligning value returne

Reply to message 1939282    from KAGEL AT DG1 DOT BLO on 06/05/96  9:15AM


>MYTYPE *aligned, *unaligned;   /* Or some reasonable typedef. */
>
>aligned = (MYTYPE *)((unsigned)un_aligned
>		          +(unsigned)alignment  /*Advance pointer alignment */
>/*Backup by #misaligned bytes*/ -((unsigned)un_aligned %
(unsigned)alignment));
>
>You want to advance the pointer to the next higher aligned address.  This
>simple code, as suggested by John Aldrich with correction, is clearer than the
>'&~' code M. Latorre came up with and  the optimizer should do a good job at
>making it efficient.

Ah, I see what my mistake was.  Thanks for the correction.  :)

John