[Cbe-oss-dev] Memalign and free doesn't work

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:45 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> On 10/10/2009 06:13 AM, Philip Pratt-Szeliga wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am noticing that memalign and free doesn't work on the ps3.
> 
> The POSIX standard says that free() doesn't need to free the
> resources from a memalign().  I guess that is what is happening
> here.
> 
> If possible, I recommend you convert your program to use
> statically allocated variables.

My man page says:

POSIX requires that memory obtained from posix_memalign() can be  freed
using free(3).

But I don't know if that works for spu programs.

cheers
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