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From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org>
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I know it may be stupid, but I can't understand this sentence from 
malloc(3) man page:

"
The allocated space is suitably aligned (after possible pointer 
coercion) for storage of any type of object.
"

What does "suitable aligned for storage of *any* type of object" means?
What is pointer coercion? I have no pointer before malloc() returns.

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Sem.