From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: malloc and alignment
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:35:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030616223526.GA8010@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306161438.h5GEcodM011551@rum.cs.yale.edu>
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:38:50AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> So all we need is to make sure that those 8KB are properly aligned.
> But how can I do that ?
> It seems the only reliable way is to malloc 16KB and then waste
> the 8KB that happen to be before/after the aligned part.
>
> Should I just wrap malloc in my own malloc_aligned such that
> malloc_aligned calls malloc to allocate chunks of say 1MB
> and then gives them out in aligned packets of 8KB ?
You could use `memalign'....
-Miles
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-16 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-16 14:38 malloc and alignment Stefan Monnier
2003-06-16 15:15 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-16 15:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-16 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-17 4:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2003-06-17 7:35 ` David Kastrup
2003-06-16 22:35 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2003-06-16 23:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-17 2:25 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-17 4:48 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
[not found] ` <E19SJCe-0008Bb-Vp@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-06-24 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <E19VGK5-0000CQ-F4@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-06-27 23:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-06-27 23:47 ` Miles Bader
2003-06-29 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-04 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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