improving malloc

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, OndÅ~Yej Bílka wrote:

> If we relax alignment guarante we can reduce memory consumption more
> by returning 8byte requests aligned only to 8 bytes.

All allocations are required by ISO C to be sufficiently aligned for any 
standard type, including types larger than the size of the allocation (see 
C90 DR#075).

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Joseph S. Myers
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