[PATCH] PPC32 Linuxthreads Chance MALLOC_ALIGNMENT for VMX

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Thu Mar 11 22:39:00 GMT 2004


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
>> 1   ... The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably aligned
>>     so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of object
>
> And all that XMM/VMX/... are no standard types.  Therefore nothing in
> the spec applies.

I could not find a sentence containing "standard types" in any part of
section 7.20.3.  All I see is the phrase "any type of object".

Andreas.

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