Re: new module 'aligned-malloc'

[Paul Eggert]

On 7/21/20 2:43 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Eventually I hope even Microsoft will figure out how to do aligned allocation,
> > and even if my hope is dashed that's OK, our code will still work.
> I believe Redmond has _aligned_malloc.

Unfortunately it requires that the storage be freed via _aligned_free (which is 
basically what the newly-introduced Gnulib module does). It's better to return a 
pointer that you can pass to plain 'free'.