Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind/coregrind

[Jeremy F. <je...@go...>]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 10:19, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On that point, anybody planning to attack this should check what
> alignment glibc uses on x86-64 as it have to return 16 byte aligned
> pointers due to the use of SSE for floating point values. It would
> be a bit silly to rework it for 8 buyte alignment and then find we
> need 16 byte alignment ;-)

Yep; that might apply to x86-32 as well.

In general we should work out how to parameterise it so that it matches
the default alignment of the default allocator for the current OS/CPU
target.

	J