Date:	Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:38:02 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: memalign & valloc v3
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Mark E. wrote:

> A gcc bootstrap using valloc (and memalign) succeeded. Previous
> efforts caused the bootstrap to fail because of the issue of what do
> when the adjusted pointer was only adjusted by a small amount. But
> now gcc has been changed to use malloc and adjust the pointer it
> returns and not use valloc at all. But I also note a trend where
> packages that use G.C. (like Smalltalk) will want aligned memory
> either with mmap or some other method. So it looks like valloc and
> its friend may have uses after all.

Given that you invested much work in coding, documenting, and testing
this, I don't see any reasons not to have this in the library.

Thanks for your work.

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