From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: memory aligning
Date: 21 Aug 2000 16:55:32 -0700
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Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au writes:

> > If you are asking about malloc, it returns memory aligned on 8-byte
> > boundaries.
> > 
> > > 2) how does one do it?
> > 
> > Do what?
> 
> sorry how would one align memory to something other than 8 bytes (eg
> 128 bytes)

Place it at an address that's a multiple of 128.  If you allocate a
buffer of size 127+yoursize, and round up the returned address to the
nearest multiple of 128, you will have at least yoursize bytes
available at that address. 

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Nate Eldredge
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