Alignment of malloc returned pointer

[Andreas Schwab]

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

> Because we found that some of our applications are performing better
> with less alignment for the malloc returned pointer and we want to
> give the user an option to chose between the malloc with less vs at
> least __alignof__ (long double) alignment.

A pointer aligned to __alignof__ (long double) is also aligned to less
than that.  So you already have that.

Andreas.

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