#1753: PMC attribute blocks not aligned
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Reporter: Paul C. Anagnostopoulos | Owner: Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: core | Version: 2.6.0
Severity: high | Keywords:
Lang: | Patch:
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Comment(by Paul C. Anagnostopoulos):
When the attribute block is freed, it is chained on a list of free blocks
with a pointer at the beginning of the block. That pointer might need to
be aligned. This is why the allocator ensures that the block is at least
`sizeof (void *)` bytes in length. But it doesn't round up the size, so
every block except the first might be misaligned.
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