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[Bug libc/12495] Malloc fails if MALLOC_ALIGNMENT > 2 * SIZE_SZ
- From: "hjl.tools at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 02:33:22 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/12495] Malloc fails if MALLOC_ALIGNMENT > 2 * SIZE_SZ
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- References: <bug-12495-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12495
--- Comment #2 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> 2011-02-17 02:33:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, hjl.tools at gmail dot com wrote:
>
> > If I define MALLOC_ALIGNMENT > 2 * SIZE_SZ, malloc will
> > fail in mysterious ways.
>
> Yes, this is known. There's a patch at
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2007-11/msg00062.html> that fixes the
> problem in the context of PowerPC malloc not allocating memory
> sufficiently aligned for long double.
Yes, it works. I applied it to hjl/x32 branch. THANKS.
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