standards/85090: [patch] add memalign() and posix_memalign() functions

[Sergey Matveychuk]

The following reply was made to PR standards/85090; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sergey Matveychuk <sem at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: standards/85090: [patch] add memalign() and posix_memalign()
 functions
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:13:47 +0400

 > - Do we really need memalign()?  It looks rather obsolete.
 
 I'm not sure really. posix_memalign() is advanced standard extension, 
 but memalign() is not standard at all, but widely used (in a Linux world 
 at least). It could be removed from the patch.
 
 But posix_memalign() has a quite strange semantics. Like all other 
 posix_ function have :)
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 Sem.