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Re: [patch v1] malloc: fix set_max_fast "impossibly small" value


On Wed, 30 Oct 2019, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> Which on i386 is overriden here:
> sysdeps/i386/malloc-alignment.h:
>  22 #define MALLOC_ALIGNMENT 16
> 
> This is because we have to account for 16-byte aligned vector types.

Rather, to account for 16-byte-aligned _Float128 and _Decimal128.  Vector 
types are expected to require aligned_alloc, but any type that's a basic 
type as defined in ISO C has a fundamental alignment and so malloc must 
allocate memory suitably aligned for it.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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