Aligned memory management?

Question

I have a few related questions about managing aligned memory blocks. Cross-platform answers would be ideal. However, as I\'m pretty sure a cross-platform solution does not

Answer 1

You might be able to jimmy (in Microsoft VC++ and maybe other compilers):

#pragma pack(16)

such that malloc( ) is forced to return a 16-byte-aligned pointer. Something along the lines of:

ptr_16byte = malloc( 10 * sizeof( my_16byte_aligned_struct ));

If it worked at all for malloc( ), I'd think it would work for realloc( ) just as well.

Just a thought.

-- pete