Do not enforce minimum alignment in memalign().
Do not enforce minimum alignment in memalign(). This is a non-standard function, and there is disagreement over whether to enforce minimum alignment. Solaris documentation (whence memalign() originated) says that minimum alignment is required: The value of alignment must be a power of two and must be greater than or equal to the size of a word. However, Linux's manual page says in its NOTES section: memalign() may not check that the boundary parameter is correct. This is descriptive rather than prescriptive, but applications with bad assumptions about memalign() exist, so be as forgiving as possible. Reported by Mike Hommey.
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