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From: rjk@mrstve.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Determing alignment of (char *) pointer
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Date: Wed, 10-Dec-86 08:31:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 10 08:31:09 1986
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Reply-To: rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns)
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In article <7381@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> In particular, I need to determine whether the pointer is 32-bit
>> aligned before attempting to store a long by casting it to a (long *).
>
>Speaking generally, "there ain't no graceful way".
> [and so forth]

Should there be?  I may very well be misunderstanding what's going on here,
but it appears to me that you're looking for a *machine-independent* way of
performing a *machine-specific* operation.  None of the methods I've seen
(I may have missed a few) would work on a machine like the CDC 6600
(famous in song and story) with its 60 bit words.  Am I right? or have I
missed something?  Our news feed is occasionally flakey...
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Rich Kuhns		{ihnp4, decvax, etc...}!pur-ee!pur-phy!mrstve!rjk