On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> But it is dubious to require that, say, strdup ("example") returns a
> pointer which is 16-byte-aligned, too.
>
> What is missing, it seems to me, is the qualification that for the
> pointer returned by malloc, the alignment requirements only of those
> types whose size does not exceed the malloc argument argument need to be
> considered.
Why? The standard requires that it is aligned even for the smaller sizes, and
glibc malloc honors that. Why do you want to change it all of sudden?
Jakub
