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From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
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Subject: Re: sizeof(Class) vs. size passed to Class::new
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Date: 18 Oct 89 17:37:51 GMT
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Michael writes:

	"Since malloc does not, a priori, give you reasonably aligned
	memory ..."

On what system does malloc misbehave in this way?  The BSD, system V,
and SunOS man pages all state that malloc *does* give correctly aligned
memory, and I haven't yet encountered an implementation for which this
is untrue.  (Maybe you have a non-Unix system in mind?)

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