Determing alignment of (char *) pointer

[Stuart D. Gathman]

In article <1510 at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU>, newman at mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Ron Newman) writes:

> I am using a (char *) pointer to store a sequence of differently-typed

> In particular, I need to determine whether the pointer is 32-bit
> aligned before attempting to store a long by casting it to a (long *).

Cast it to a (long *) and back again then see if it changed.

char *p;
if ( (char *) (long *) p == p) . . .
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>