Problem with malloc on PA
Roland McGrath
roland@frob.com
Wed Apr 25 15:30:00 GMT 2001
> The PA-RISC architecture requires a lock to be 16-byte aligned. So we
> add __attribute__((aligned (16))) to our lock type and that aligns it
> to a 16-byte offset within the struct. But if the struct isn't 16-byte
> aligned, this loses.
That sure confer the 16-byte alignment requirement onto the containing struct.
Then you can replace malloc(sizeof(struct foo)) with
memalign(__alignof(struct foo), sizefo(struct foo)).
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