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Re: Alignment requirement of basic types

From Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Alignment requirement of basic types
Date 2015-04-03 18:01 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <20150403102444.291@kylheku.com> (permalink)
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On 2015-04-03, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> wrote:
> C2011 requires that alignments must be powers of 2, no such requirement
> existed in earlier versions of the C standard.

What problem does that solve?

The implementor and user of a compiler that has 6 byte types with
3 byte alignment are now in nonconforming land.

Business as usual, otherwise.

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Alignment requirement of basic types Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2015-04-03 15:48 +0200
  Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org> - 2015-04-03 10:23 -0400
  Re: Alignment requirement of basic types James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-03 11:37 -0400
    Re: Alignment requirement of basic types John Temples <usenet@xargs-spam.com> - 2015-04-03 17:21 +0000
      Re: Alignment requirement of basic types James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-04-03 13:45 -0400
        Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-04-03 18:40 +0000
      Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-03 10:50 -0700
      Re: Alignment requirement of basic types glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-04-03 19:02 +0000
    Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-04-03 18:01 +0000
  Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2015-04-03 12:05 -0400
    Re: Alignment requirement of basic types glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-04-03 16:48 +0000
  Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2015-04-03 16:46 +0000
    Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-04-03 11:06 -0700
      Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-05 22:22 -0500
  Re: Alignment requirement of basic types Waldek Hebisch <hebisch@antispam.uni.wroc.pl> - 2015-04-04 23:15 +0000

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