Re: glib / CORBA integration examples ...

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Sam Couter wrote:

> Michael Meeks <michael@ximian.com> wrote:
> > to glib users I imagine [ Tim ? ], a sticking point might be strings
> > there - we currently offset the pointer to tag it as a string, rather
> > than using a full smart header to save space there; can glib accept a
> 
> Which reminds me... Where does ORBit do whatever it needs to do in order
> to guarantee that all memory allocations are aligned to two-byte
> boundaries? Depending on the allocator and hardware alignment
> restrictions, this is not always true. Things break rather badly when a
> string is freed using a bogus smart allocation header.

Malloc and calloc is required to return memory that is suitably aligned
for storing any variable in it - hence you have the quarantee that no
additional tweaking on the returned pointer is needed. I somehow imagine
you have a lot more problems than Orbit if you use an allocator not
matching this requirement on a machine with aligmnet restrictions.

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