On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 23:45 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > On Monday, July 06, 2015 at 11:25:35 PM, Scott Wood wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 15:44 +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: > > > > > > This is what memalign(3) has > > > > > > to say: > > > > > > " > > > The function posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the > > > address of the allocated memory in *memptr. The address of the > > > allo‐ cated memory will be a multiple of alignment, which must > > > be a power of two and a multiple of sizeof(void *). If size is 0, > > > then the value placed in *memptr is either NULL, or a unique pointer > > > value that can later be successfully passed to free(3). > > > > > > The obsolete function memalign() allocates size bytes and returns a > > > pointer to the allocated memory. The memory address will be a mul‐ > > > tiple of alignment, which must be a power of two. > > > " > > > > posix_memalign() does not exist in U-Boot, and it's not clear to me why > > memalign() should be considered obsolete. Is the difference just the > > ability to return -EINVAL? > > The args are also totally different.
...in order to accommodate returning an error value. -Scott _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
