Re: Questions about alignment

Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
> Greetings
>
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1) If the address d is suitably aligned for datatype A then is it
> guaranteed that d+sizeof(A) will also be suitably aligned for A ?



>
> 2) If p is a pointer to some datatype B and contains a properly aligned
> address for B then does p+1 point to the next properly aligned address
> for B ?



Well, what you are doing is pretty much just the incrementation of the
pointer. Though I might add that it is not necessary for d or p to be
suitably aligned. The result is expected to be similar to that of
incrementation[++ or +=1] irrespective of the the address being aligned
or not.
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