Alignment of malloc returned pointer

[Andreas Schwab]

Ramana <ramana.venkat83@gmail.com> writes:

> In glibc, I understand that the alignment of the pointer returned by
> malloc is aligned to at least __alignof__ (long double). For our
> target, we want to have a different version of malloc that return the
> pointer with less alignment compared to __alignof__ (long double) and
> leave the existing malloc version as is.

Why do you want that?

Andreas.

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