On Sunday, 27 October 2013 at 10:45:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 10/26/13 8:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
AlignedMallocator that uses the _aligned_* family on Windows
and the
respective functions on Posix. On Windows, allocate() requests
would
pass a default of platformSize (i.e. 16 I suspect) to
_aligned_malloc.
Just implemented AlignedMallocator and pushed.
http://erdani.com/d/phobos-prerelease/std_allocator.html#.AlignedMallocator
The constraints on the alignment parameter are neither documented
nor checked.
i.e. Alignment must be a power of two, and for posix_memalign it
must additionally be greater than sizeof(void*).
I can only think of one use case for needing runtime specified
alignment: allocating operating system page sized chunks.
Are there any other use cases?
