Thanks, posix_memalign is just what I needed. My system is linux, and it has both, altought memalign seems to be obsolete. I guess there is no truly portable way to do this, exept writing my own function? (Not needed in this case, however.) kf On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mihnea Balta wrote: > See the manpage on posix_memalign (if your system has it) or memalign. > > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 15:02, Kimmo Fredriksson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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? > > > > kf > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Acasa.ro vine cu albumele, tu vino doar cu pozele ;) > > http://poze.acasa.ro/ > >