Re: [boost] Boost.Align review begins today

Subject: Re: [boost] Boost.Align review begins today
From: Glen Fernandes (glen.fernandes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-04-17 19:17:47

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> I'm not sure this is a good idea. Given that pointer size is 4 or 8
> bytes (with the same alignment) on modern platforms and that the
> native malloc alignment is also 8 or 16 (on 32 and 64-bit platforms)
> already, you don't save anything. No sane memory allocator will allow
> you to allocate 1 byte at alignment 1 for example, it'll be 8 bytes at
> least. OTOH, I've seen cases when the compiler was not able to
> optimize away memcpy. I think rounding up the alignment was the right
> thing to do.
>

I see. Updated accordingly. (And merged to master)

Glen