Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:52:17 -0400
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> I'm not sure whether 32-byte alignment is the best option, but the waste

8-byte alignment is my vote.  Note that a global alignment is wrong,
because ctor/dtor tables will get corrupted if they're padded.

> Another related question is, what is the guaranteed alignment from malloc?

malloc returns pointers that are guaranteed to be sufficiently aligned
for any use.  Of course, on the ix86, any alignment is "sufficient".
However, djgpp's current malloc aligns to 8-byte boundaries.