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Re: improving malloc

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 16:13:34 +0000
Subject: Re: improving malloc
References: <20130105090242.GA4490@domone.kolej.mff.cuni.cz>

On Sat, 5 Jan 2013, OndÅ~Yej BÃlka wrote:

> If we relax alignment guarante we can reduce memory consumption more
> by returning 8byte requests aligned only to 8 bytes.

All allocations are required by ISO C to be sufficiently aligned for any 
standard type, including types larger than the size of the allocation (see 
C90 DR#075).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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