Re: Does malloc tell us anything about alignment modulo k?

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Jul 15, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Paolo Carlini wrote:

> Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> > I'm working on some trivial alignment analysis.
> > Malloc'd memory is supposed to be "aligned suitably for any data 
> > type".
> > Does this actually tell us anything about whether the result is 
> > aligned modulo k (IE aligned to a k byte boundary)?
>
> Hi.
>
> In the glibc docs you can find these sentences (which I have always 
> trusted):

I'm trying to avoid introducing a target hook/macro if possible, but it 
seems it may not be possible, since all osen/platforms seem to 
guarantee something, but not the same thing :).