Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:41:12 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc() alignment |
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> > Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated > blocks? Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte > aligned, for example? >
4-byte alignment is guaranteed on 32-bit cpus, 8-byte alignment on 64-bit cpus.
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