On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Leonid Pauzner wrote: > 22-Jan-2003 19:06 Thomas Dickey wrote: > >> > 2003-01-22 (2.8.5dev.13) > >> > * change new memory-allocation in HTString.c and GridText.c to provide pointers > >> > to data aligned to the host's pointer-size, to work on Tru64 where this > >> > happens to be 8 -TD > > > I didn't think of that at first either, but the runtime messages are very > > noticable. > > sizeof(double) will be more portable, from alloca.c:
maybe - I'm not certain. I was reading something on comp.std.c a month or so ago which asserted that c99 uses 8 for a worst-case. I'll check that too. sizeof(double) is at least 8, of course. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
