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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Alignment issues and SPARC (commentary)
Message-ID: <7959@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 23 May 88 18:11:12 GMT
References: <326@apexepa.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <326@apexepa.UUCP> gary@apexepa.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski) writes:
>	2.  I regretted making some assumptions about the viability of
>		memcpy(buf, (char *)&h, sizeof(h));
>	    where 'h' is anything but a char.

What's the problem?  memcpy() certainly does not require any particular
alignment of the data it copies.  (Overlaps may yield surprises, though.)