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13.30.8 memalign

Documentation:

• https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Aligned-Memory-Blocks.html,
• man memalign.

Gnulib module: memalign

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is declared in <stdlib.h> instead of <malloc.h> on some platforms: Solaris 11.
• This function doesn’t accept an alignment of 1 or 2 on some platforms: Solaris 11.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: macOS 14, FreeBSD 12.0, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 6.7, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.00, mingw, MSVC 14.

The Gnulib module aligned-malloc provides functions for allocating and freeing blocks of suitably aligned memory.