Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind/coregrind

[Robert W. <rj...@du...>]

> 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 ;-)

On one of our Opteron boxes, I spotted this in the posix_memalign() man
page:

       GNU  libc  malloc()  always returns 8-byte aligned memory
       addresses, so these routines are only needed if you require
       larger alignment  values.

Regards,
 Robert.

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