Re: Interpreter not building correct byte code

[Mark Edgar <medgar@...>]

Tom Bates wrote:
> The memory allocator we're using does return aligned blocks. I would think
> that's a real necessity in any environment. Does the C standard have
> anything to say about this?

Yes; in ISO 9899:1999 7.20.3 p1

"The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably aligned so 
that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of object and then used 
to access such an object or an array of such objects in the space 
allocated (until the space is explicitly deallocated)."

					-Mark