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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 14:41:25 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: memalign hooks (was: LIBM patch for GCC 3.3 - math changes)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> > >
... snip ...
> 
> > I think memalign should also fail for alignment parameter < ALIGN
> > value (i.e. 8 at present).
> 
> IMHO, it should behave in a way that is compatible with other
> implementations.  Could someone please look on their nearest Unix or
> GNU/Linux box and see what does memalign there do for such small
> alignment parameters?  (Sorry, no time to do this myself.)

On reconsidering it will suffice to force the alignment with

   if (alignment < ALIGN) alignment = ALIGN;

after the power of two check.

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