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Re: [lwip-devel] Purpose of memory alignment check
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Mason |
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Re: [lwip-devel] Purpose of memory alignment check |
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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:03:12 +0100 |
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Bostjan Meglic wrote:
> On our architecture sizeof(void *) returns 2; that is 2 words.
sizeof(foo) returns the number of char (preferably unsigned char),
not words, required to store a foo. In other words, given
void *foo;
unsigned char arr[sizeof foo];
one can safely memcpy "foo" into "arr".
What is the value of CHAR_BIT on your platform, 8 or 16?
(Or some other exotic value?)
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Regards.