2017-10-27 10:17 GMT+02:00 Stefan Krah :
> Victor wrote a patch and would like to avoid adding a (probably unnecessary)
> emulation function. I agree with that.
> (...)
> So if any platform does not have some form of aligned_alloc(), please
> speak up.
I'm not really opposed to implement an aligne
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 03:43:47PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> 1. CPython's own support for platforms where we don't have a native aligned
> memory allocation API to call is covered by PEP 11, so if all current
> buildbots still work, then it will be up to the folks interested in a
> platform that
On 27 October 2017 at 18:17, Stefan Krah wrote:
> Victor wrote a patch and would like to avoid adding a (probably
> unnecessary)
> emulation function. I agree with that.
>
> So if any platform does not have some form of aligned_alloc(), please
> speak up.
>
I think Victor's suggested strategy in
Hello,
we want to add aligned versions of allocation functions to 3.7:
https://bugs.python.org/issue18835
C11 has aligned_alloc().
Linux, BSD, OSX, MSVC, Android all have either posix_memalign() or
_aligned_malloc().
Cygwin apparently has posix_memalign().
MinGW has:
https://github.