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Re: Alignment of malloc returned pointer
- From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell at gmail dot com>
- To: Ramana <ramana dot venkat83 at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:17:49 -0800
- Subject: Re: Alignment of malloc returned pointer
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On 12/11/2014 02:50 AM, Ramana wrote:
Hi,
In glibc, I understand that the alignment of the pointer returned by
malloc is aligned to at least __alignof__ (long double). For our
target, we want to have a different version of malloc that return the
pointer with less alignment compared to __alignof__ (long double) and
leave the existing malloc version as is.
This isn't allowed, assuming your target has an ABI with
_Alignof(max_align_t) == _Alignof(long double).
For details, take a look at:
7.22.3 Memory management functions
6.2.8 Alignment of objects
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691003