In August 2013, Arne added support for alignment to block_allocator. In doing so, he also introduced a dependency on memalign/posix_memalign.
I was planning on rewriting this support to work without memalign, but then I started looking for places which _use_ this functionality, and found none. Pike seems to build just fine without it. If it's dead code, maybe it's better to just remove it?
Since nobody has spoken up for the alignment functionality, I'll remove it in two days from now. It will be simple enough to put it back in case someone comes forth with a use for it.
Hi Marcus,
sorry for the late response. I think its ok to remove this, as far as I know it has never been used.
Arne
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021, Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
Since nobody has spoken up for the alignment functionality, I'll remove it in two days from now. It will be simple enough to put it back in case someone comes forth with a use for it.
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