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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:17:11 +0000
From: Kenn Humborg <kenn@linux.ie>
To: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: kmalloc() alignment
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Does kmalloc() make any guarantees of the alignment of allocated
blocks?  Will the returned block always be 4-, 8- or 16-byte
aligned, for example?

Later,
Kenn

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