[PATCH] use 8 byte alignment in _dl_malloc

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Feb 17 15:27:41 UTC 2007


On Saturday 17 February 2007, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:44:57 -0800 (PST), Pandit Panburana 
<ppanbura at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >      I agree 8 byte alignment is surely a safe bet but I am more
> > concern on platforms or environment that is sensitive to overhead
> > when they can do with less.
>
> OK, then how about this?

ugh no not a chance :)

we want to keep arch details out of common files, not add them back in

why not check out the malloc/align issue we just went through with the 
standard malloc implementation
-mike
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