Implement C23 memalignment
Joseph Myers
josmyers@redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 17:51:39 GMT 2025
On Thu, 2 Oct 2025, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> | On all presently supported systems, when @var{A} is a power of two,
> | @code{memalignment (@var{P}) == @var{A}} is equivalent to
> | @code{((uintptr_t) @var{P}) & (@var{A - 1})}. If @var{A} is certain
That's not equivalent. The expression with '&' tests for *not* having
alignment A. The expression with memalignment tests for having alignment
*exactly* A (not allowing greater alignment, or alignment 0 for the null
pointer case).
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Joseph S. Myers
josmyers@redhat.com
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