Re: Maximum alignment question

[Bogdan Marinescu <bogdan.marinescu@...>]

> The manual says:
>
>  lua_tolstring returns a fully aligned pointer to a string inside the
>  Lua state.
>
> The string itself is stored just after this structure:
>
>  #define getstr(ts)      cast(const char *, (ts) + 1)

Thank you, I understood that. The part that I don't understand is why
does the string have to be fully aligned.

Best,
Bogdan