At 11:18 PM 10/14/97 +0200, Manuel BOUYER wrote:
>
>Hi,
>I need to malloc some memory space that should be aligned to 8 bytes.
>Is there a better way to do this than:
>  p = (malloc(size + 0x7) +0x7) & 0x7;
> ?
>
>This is for a chip that needs 64bits aligned adresses for DMA.

Since quad_t is supported and may require quad alignment, malloc must
return memory that's quadword aligned.
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