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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Another malloc question
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Date: 24 Oct 89 20:19:55 GMT
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In article <428@cpsolv.UUCP> rhg@cpsolv.uucp (Richard H. Gumpertz) writes:
>The current standard seems to prohibit malloc from special-casing requests
>for less than size X and returning only even alignment.

Right.

>Is this overkill in the language of the standard?

No, "simplicity" would be a better word.

Nobody thought there would be sufficient gain in the real world
(as opposed to your hypothetical 32-byte aligned machine) to be
worth the added complexity.