"H.J. Lu" <hjl.to...@gmail.com> writes: >> Given that __attribute__ ((aligned (max))) may change, I don't >> think it is very useful. A portable generic memory allocator should >> take an additional argument for alignment. >> > > If we really want the maximum useful alignment for the target machine > we are compiling for, I would prefer __attribute__ ((aligned (best))) > and document that it may be changed by -mXXX.
I don't care what the name is. It's hard to pass an alignment parameter to the memory allocator when using the C++ new operator. Ian
