Re: new module 'aligned-malloc'

[Florian Weimer]

* Paul Eggert:

> On 7/21/20 8:51 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> The official aligned_alloc produces pointers compatible with free.
>> This module cannot do that.
>
> I don't see why not, at least on platforms of interest to Gnulib. On
> systems that provide no native way to do an aligned allocation, we
> merely keep calling malloc with suitable arguments until we get a
> pointer that is suitably aligned. We then free all the unsuitable
> storage we allocated along the way, and return the good pointer.

I don't think it will work.  Try to get an allocation of 4096 bytes with
4096 bytes alignment using glibc malloc this way.

Thanks,
Florian