[Numpy-discussion] Byte aligned arrays

[Sturla Molden]

On 19.12.2012 19:25, Henry Gomersall wrote:

> That is not true at least under Windows 32-bit. I think also it's not
> true for Linux 32-bit from my vague recollections of testing in a
> virtual machine. (disclaimer: both those statements _may_ be out of
> date).

malloc is required to return memory on 16 byte boundary on Windows.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ycsb6wwf.aspx

On Windows we can also use _aligned_malloc and _aligned_realloc to 
produce the alignment we want.

  _aligned_malloc(N, 4096);  // page-aligned memory


Sturla