On Nov 11, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
Andrew Pinski wrote:
On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 22:18 -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Your code will be safe on all counts if you change buf from int[] to
char[]. The language standard grants a special exemption to char*
pointers. Without that exemption, it would be impossible to write
malloc in C.
As I recall, we chose int[] for alignment reasons, figuring we'd
have no guarantees on the alignment of a char[].
True, but add __attribute__((aligned(4))) and all is well.
