C question (memory allocation and access)

[Peter da Silva]

How about this:

union padding {
	int mn[2];
	double d;
};

	block = malloc(sizeof (union padding) + whatever * sizeof (double));

	((int *)block)[0] = m;
	((int *)block)[1] = n;
	start_of_double_array = &((union padding *)block)[1];
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