On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 15:19 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> On Oct 1, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Åke Sandgren wrote:
>
> > No it didn't. And memalign is obsolete according to the manpage.
> > posix_memalign is the one to use.
> >
>
>
> This particular call is testing the memalign intercept in the ptmalloc
> component during startup; we can't replace it with posix_memalign.
>
> Hence, the values that are passed are fairly meaningless. It's just
> testing that the intercept works.
Yes, but perhaps you need to verify that posix_memalign is also
intercepted?
I commented on memalign being obsolete since there are a couple of uses
of it in the rest of the openmpi code apart from that particular case.
They should probably be changed.
