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

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 08:57 +1100, Jonathan Adamczewski wrote:
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 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 posix_memalign() is not memalign().

Um yeah I know :)  I meant Phil should try using posix_memalign()
instead.

cheers


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