MacOS X memory alignment
I had a hard time finding a definitive statement on MacOS X memory alignment so I did my own tests. On 10.4/intel, both stack and heap memory is 16 byte aligned. So people porting software can stop looking for memalign() and posix_memalign(). It’s not needed.
Apr 03 2007 12:00 pm |
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on 12 Oct 2008 at 9:36 pm OSX lacks memalign - Stack Overflow
[...] Mac OS X appears to be 16-byte mem aligned. [...]