[Bug c++/15795] No way to teach operator new anything about alignment requirements

[jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org  2004-06-08 20:33 -------
Yeah, I was about to ask what other OSes do.
From
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:itStYuxiBbQJ:www.ddj.com/dotnetbook/chapters/chapter15.pdf+malloc+alignment+SSE&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 and a bunch of other docs
google found me it seems MSFT is returning 8 byte aligned objects from malloc
like glibc and there are special interfaces for bigger alignment -
_aligned_malloc, _aligned_realloc, and _aligned_free (like posix_memalign in
POSIX).  On Solaris for 32-bit programs things are also 8 byte aligned only,
eventhough there is an instruction which requires 64 byte alignment.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15795