Alignment issues and SPARC (commentary)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <326 at apexepa.UUCP> gary at apexepa.UUCP (Gary Wisniewski) writes:
>	2.  I regretted making some assumptions about the viability of
>		memcpy(buf, (char *)&h, sizeof(h));
>	    where 'h' is anything but a char.

What's the problem?  memcpy() certainly does not require any particular
alignment of the data it copies.  (Overlaps may yield surprises, though.)