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		gizmo686 on Dec 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On programming without malloc What advantage does aligning it have, given that you are already satisfied with using an allocater that cannot free memory.

ArbitraryLimits on Dec 5, 2013 [–]

None on Intel chips, but on virtual any other chip you'd get SIGBUS by referencing e.g. an N-bit datum not alinged on N/8-byte boundaries.

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