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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:00 -0000
From: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Cc: "Michael N. Moran" <mnmoran@bellsouth.net>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Arrays and Alignment
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Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:-

> | > Thanks for the instantaneous reply :-)
> | > 
> | > I must confess, however, that I don't understand what you mean
> | > by "both". Do you mean (1) array alignment and (2) array element
> | 
> | He means, I think, that &a[n] == &a[0] + n * sizeof (a[0]) is an
> | inescapable fact of life.
> 
> Certainly, but alignment and sizeof are not unrelated attributes.

That may be true, but I stand by my statement, which I believe you
agree with, and I interpret that as what Andreas meant.

Neil.