Alignment of malloc returned pointer

[Nicholas Miell]

On 12/11/2014 02:50 AM, Ramana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

This isn't allowed, assuming your target has an ABI with 
_Alignof(max_align_t) == _Alignof(long double).

For details, take a look at:
7.22.3 Memory management functions
6.2.8 Alignment of objects
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691003