svn commit: r243405 - in stable/9: include lib/libc/stdlib

[Dimitry Andric]

On 2012-11-22 16:19, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Author: ed
> Date: Thu Nov 22 15:19:53 2012
> New Revision: 243405
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/243405
>
> Log:
>    MFC r229848:
>
>      Add aligned_alloc(3).
>
>      The C11 folks reinvented the wheel by introducing an aligned version of
>      malloc(3) called aligned_alloc(3), instead of posix_memalign(3). Instead
>      of returning the allocation by reference, it returns the address, just
>      like malloc(3).
>
>    I'm MFCing this now, as it seems aligned_alloc(3) is needed to make the
>    new version of libc++ work, which was merged back to FreeBSD 9 in r243376.
>
>    Requested by:	dim

Thanks!