On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 01:43:28PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > But it is dubious to require that, say, strdup ("example") returns a > pointer which is 16-byte-aligned, too. > > What is missing, it seems to me, is the qualification that for the > pointer returned by malloc, the alignment requirements only of those > types whose size does not exceed the malloc argument argument need to be > considered.
Why? The standard requires that it is aligned even for the smaller sizes, and glibc malloc honors that. Why do you want to change it all of sudden? Jakub