On Dec 30, 2008, at 14:32, Ezra Peisach via RT wrote:
> With regards to alignment - I believe that is why the "fix" to use a
> union would force an alignment.  I will use an in_addr to ensure  
> alignment.
> As I indicated in my initial analysis - there is one other place
> gethostbyaddr is used w/o a struct in_addr - but the memory is
> malloced.   I am correct that malloc will return an alignment that is
> compatible w/ any structure - right?

To the best of my knowledge, yes, it'll have to be aligned well enough.

Ken