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Re: Alignment of malloc returned pointer
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Ramana <ramana dot venkat83 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:08:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: Alignment of malloc returned pointer
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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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