aligned malloc() in GCC?

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Since the question was asked, a new function was standardized by C11:

void *aligned_alloc(size_t alignment, size_t size);

and it is available in glibc (not on windows as far as I know). It takes its arguments in the same order as memalign, the reverse of Microsoft’s _aligned_malloc, and uses the same free function as usual for deallocation.

A subtle difference is that aligned_alloc requires size to be a multiple of alignment.

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