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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:24:53 -0600
From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
Subject: Re: Alignment problem
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Charles Sandmann wrote:

> The drawback in this (if I remember the code correctly) is that rv will never be
> == expected_sbrk, so we always waste an extra boundary tag in addition to the
> additional 7 bytes lost.

The 7 bytes are lost only each time the pointer has to be re-aligned, not on every
malloc call.  I didn't think that 7 bytes was significant.

-Eric