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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: C question (memory allocation and access)
Keywords: memory access
Message-ID: <7008@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 16 Nov 89 17:56:42 GMT
References: <5322@wpi.wpi.edu> <20771@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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How about this:

union padding {
	int mn[2];
	double d;
};

	block = malloc(sizeof (union padding) + whatever * sizeof (double));

	((int *)block)[0] = m;
	((int *)block)[1] = n;
	start_of_double_array = &((union padding *)block)[1];
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