Re: Allocating aligned memory?

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For the moment I am using the C function memalign() like this:

foreign import ccall "static stdlib.h" memalign :: CInt -> CInt -> IO (Ptr CChar)

iirc, memalign is not provided on windows, nor by mingw. so this wouldn't be portable. claus

Storable.alignment is not used, it is there for informational purposes only - i.e. what alignment does this type need. Foreign.malloc should return memory aligned to the maximum alignment required by any primitive type, and any C structure type (the same as malloc(), in other words).