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Re:On programming without malloc by gizmo686 on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @06:43PM (#6851433)
What advantage does aligning it have, given that you are already satisfied with using an allocater that cannot free memory.
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Re:On programming without malloc by ArbitraryLimits on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @07:19PM (#6851654)
None on Intel chips, but on virtual any other chip you'd get SIGBUS by referencing e.g. an N-bit datum not alinged on N/8-byte boundaries.
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