obstack default alignment

[Andreas Schwab]

Benno <benjl@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> I would have thought it made sense to set the default alignment in the same
> way as malloc(). However failing shouldn't the code actually implement the
> docs and set the alignment to 4, rather than calculating?

It is never an error to return more alignment than what is garanteed.
After all, an 8 byte aligned object is also 4 byte aligned.

Andreas.

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