[PATCH] PPC32 Linuxthreads Chance MALLOC_ALIGNMENT for VMX

Steve Munroe sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Thu Mar 11 16:48:00 GMT 2004


The Altivec/VMX instructions require 16-byte alignment. So we need to 
change the default alignment for malloc/calloc/realloc to avoid SIGILL 
when uses malloc for vector types.

Any problems with this change?

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