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9.5.4 memalign: allocate aligned uninitialized memory

   

SYNOPSIS

#include <oskit/c/malloc.h>

void *memalign(size_t alignment, size_t size);

DESCRIPTION

Allocate uninitialized memory with the specified byte alignment; e.g., an alignment value of 32 will return a block aligned on a 32-byte boundary. Calls memalignf with flags value zero to allocate the memory.

Note that the alignment is not the same as used by the underlying LMM routines. The alignment parameter in LMM calls is the number of low-order bits that should be zero in the returned pointer.

PARAMETERS

alignment
Desired byte-alignment of the returned block.
size
Size in bytes of desired allocation.

RETURNS

Returns a pointer to the allocated memory or zero if none.



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