On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Manuel BOUYER wrote:

> Chris Torek pointed out that the 4.4bsd malloc always return memory aligned
> on the min of ((smaller ^2 > size), pagesize)....
> Well, to be safe, I could also malloc (size+7), this will not loose that much
> memory ...

Well, you'd use twice as much, actually, in the 4.4BSD allocator,
since it actually uses up an aligned block size 2^n large enough
to hold what you're allocating. :-)

cjs

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