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  1. Path: munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!news
  2. From: accolyte@wr.com.au (Accolyte)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: ds.l
  5. Date: 8 Feb 1996 05:08:55 GMT
  6. Organization: Information Services, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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  14. >> When using FileInfoBlock it must be long word aligned.
  15. >> Q: In asm you have 'ds.l'. Is there any equal in C?
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  17. > IMHO dynamic memory is longword aligned.
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  19. I think it's aligned to 8 bytes isn't it?
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  21. > For static memory, reserve bytesneeded+3 bytes, get a pointer to the
  22. > reserved position and AND it with 0xfffffffc
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  24. Or alternatively, the start of any segment is aligned (to 8 bytes?)
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