Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:12:28 +0200
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 20:02:48 -0500
> 
> However, all attempts to deal with releasing the space between the malloc'ed 
> pointer and the aligned pointer (in the memalign context)  when the space is 
> < 8 have not passed the gcc test so far. Any ideas on how to somehow free up 
> this space?

Speaking for myself, I don't think I understand the problem (not
surprisingly, since I never looked at this issue close enough).  Could
you perhaps elaborate a bit more on the tests gcc does in these
failing cases, and why does it fail?