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Subject: Re: standards/85090: [patch] add memalign() and posix_memalign()
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Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 30), Sergey Matveychuk said:
> 
>>Could I hear some comments, need we a memalign() function or not?
> 
> 
> Our malloc already aligns pretty well.  Blocks < 16 bytes are aligned
> to 16 bytes.  Blocks from 16 to pagesize are aligned to powers of two
> (rounded up), and blocks greater than pagesize are aligned to pagesize.
> 

Yes, I know. But if programmer needs some special align?
There is posix_memalign() in standard (as extension). Need we 
posix_memalign() then?

-- 
Sem.