malloc align

Destiniy

Intellectual 305 points

Hi,

I defined the heep in linker command file. How can I force malloc to use 8 byte aligned memory?

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over 13 years ago

0 Destiniy over 13 years ago

Intellectual 305 points

memalign();

0 Alberto Chessa over 13 years ago in reply to Destiniy

Mastermind 6670 points

Hi,

the standard malloc() already returns pointer aligned to 8, since it have to returns pointers usable with all the C standard type, that is at least sizeof(double) = 8,.

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