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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: The Long Align Struct Macro D_S
Keywords: Long word align, diskInfo struct BCPL
Message-ID: <1582@sas.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 90 15:51:22 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.151157.21042@csmil.umich.edu>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1990Feb19.151157.21042@csmil.umich.edu> root@csmil.umich.edu (Zurich Operator) writes:
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>A few weeks ago somone posted a little macro that could be used in place of 
>the AllocMem() function to long align structures for use with Amigados commands
>like Examine. I lost my copy of this macro when I upgraded to Manx 5.0 
>If you have a copy or remember it, I would be most greatful. 

Yup, it was me - here it is:

#define D_S(name, type) char c_##name[sizeof(type)+3];\
                        type *name = (type *)((long)(c_##name+3) & ~3);


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