Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 01:03:46 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: man malloc Message-ID: <4303A632.1000809@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. -- Sem.
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