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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointer alignment when int != char *
Message-ID: <6361@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 29-Aug-87 18:53:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6361
Posted: Sat Aug 29 18:53:42 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:58:06 EDT
References: <493@its63b.ed.ac.uk> <6061@brl-smoke.ARPA> <3812@spool.WISC.EDU> <6359@brl-smoke.ARPA>
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In article <6359@brl-smoke.ARPA>, I wrote:
> 		(p2 - p1) / (int)sizeof(type)
> 		((char *)p2 - (char *)p1) / (int)sizeof(char)

Please change the / to *.
Thanks to Stu Friedberg for pointing this out.
I shouldn't type up memos late at night.
Anyway, the important point is that one usually just needs
	p2 - p1
(number of objects) rather than the number of bytes.