Subject: Re: 8 octets aligned data with malloc ?
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/15/1997 19:56:13 
On Oct 15, Matt Thomas wrote
> Since quad_t is supported and may require quad alignment, malloc must
> return memory that's quadword aligned.

I've changed my driver to use plain malloc, and things seems to still work
fine. So malloc return's quadword aligned memory, at last in the common
case ...

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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