Solaris has a memalign() function which allows you to allocate memory on a
specified alignment boundary. If you are not on Solaris, your OS might also
have memalign().
Adam Stein
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>Hi,
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>I need to malloc blocks of memory that are quaranteed to be aligned to 16
>byte boundaries. Should I write my own version of malloc, or is there a
>simpler way to achieve this?
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>kf
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