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.

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