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> From: Wynn Fenwick [mailto:wynn.fenwick@cgi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:44 PM

> The program uses malloc() then iterates through each memory

It may not *actually* be the case that memory returned by a single call to malloc will be a "contiguous block". In fact, for various interpretations of "contiguous block", this will frequently be the case in many modern implementations. However, by the as-if rule, within any C program that doesn't invoke Undefined Behavior, running on a conforming implementation, it must be valid to access the contents of a block returned by malloc as the members of an array that fits in that block, or as an array of unsigned char. From the program's point of view, such arrays are always contiguous.

Michael Wojcik
Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus Received on Wed May 14 18:55:45 2003