On 06 Apr 2010, at 15:11, Michael Schnell wrote: > On 04/06/2010 02:15 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: >> the result of calloc has to be assignable to any other pointer type: > Is this not true for malloc(), as well ? Yes, but I was only trying to illustrate that the "element size" parameter of calloc is unrelated to alignment requirements. Jonas