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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>
>> In article <86v775h9o2.fsf@linuxsc.com>,
>> Tim Rentsch  <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> I don't think this is true anymore, as of C23.  Here's the
>>>> relevant text from n3220, sec 7.24.3, describing the return
>>>> value from `malloc` et al:
>>>>
>>>> |The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably
>>>> |aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of
>>>> |object with a fundamental alignment requirement and size less
>>>> |than or equal to the size requested.
>>>>
>>>> This sentence is somewhat ambiguous because it's unclear whether
>>>> the "less than or equal to the size requested" criteria applies
>>>> to both the pointer type's size _and_ fundamental alignment
>>>> requirement, or _just_ the size, [...]
>>>
>>> It's poorly constructed but in English it has only one
>>> grammatical parse.
>>
>> Nope.  Not even close.
>
> I think Tim is right about there being only one grammatical parse.
> [...]

Thanks Keith!  I owe you one. :)