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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Union element alignment query
Message-ID: <14500@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 17 Nov 90 13:36:24 GMT
References: <810001@hplred.HP.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <810001@hplred.HP.COM> curry@hplred.HP.COM (Bo Curry) writes:
>Does the standard guarantee that (void *)(&combo.a[0]) == (void *)(&combo.b) ?

Yes, as a consequence of a requirement in 3.5.2.1 Semantics combined with
the property of void* as a universal object pointer type.