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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 12:53:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: Alignment of malloc returned pointer
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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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