-Original Message-
From: Felix Fietkau
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2017 3:39 AM
To: Ted Hess ; Yousong Zhou ; lede-dev
Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] libubox: Fix calloc_a() to return mem aligned pointers
On 2017-02-24 03:37, Ted Hess wrote:
Yousong -
As a side note to your side
On 2017-02-24 03:37, Ted Hess wrote:
> Yousong -
>
> As a side note to your side note - If you examine the actual
> mechanics of the allocation, the memory block is indeed size aligned to
> (4*sizeof(size_t)), but the actual pointer returned is offset of
> (2*sizeof(size_t)) within the block. As
On 24 February 2017 at 08:30, Ted Hess <th...@kitschensync.net> wrote:
>
>
> -Original Message- From: Yousong Zhou
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:15 PM
> To: Ted Hess
> Cc: lede-dev
> Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] libubox: Fix calloc_a() to re
-Original Message-
From: Yousong Zhou
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 7:15 PM
To: Ted Hess
Cc: lede-dev
Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] [PATCH] libubox: Fix calloc_a() to return mem aligned
pointers
On 24 February 2017 at 05:20, Ted Hess <th...@kitschensync.net> wrote:
The c
The current implementation of calloc_a() returns packed pointers for the extra
arguments. These packed, unaligned, pointers are OK for a lot of architectures,
but not all. This patch will aligned the pointers returned in a manner congruent
with malloc(). I do not believe the extra padding overhead
