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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: best way to return (char *)
Message-ID: <10447@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Jun 89 04:19:12 GMT
References: <1989Jun23.170749.23253@utzoo.uucp> <10345@claris.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10345@claris.com> kevin@claris.com (Kevin Watts) writes:
>	char buffer[20];
>	*(int *) buffer = 20;

Of course, this fails on a word-oriented architecture when the buffer
happens not to be properly aligned.