Re: C programming on ARM

On 2008-01-30, Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco_dot_Dijkstra@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Actually most architectures are byte addressable, including ARM,

True, but many of them (ARM, SPARC, MSP430, ...) have alignment
requirements for objects larger than 1 byte in size.

so casting pointers just works.

Unless the resulting pointer is misaligned.

Of course it's essential to know what you're doing - well
written programs rarely need pointer casts.

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