From 49138842df5e5a09373817e6abf0cd5787cfa82b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Jung Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 14:58:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] use posix_memalign on most Unix targets --- std/src/sys/pal/unix/alloc.rs | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/std/src/sys/pal/unix/alloc.rs b/std/src/sys/pal/unix/alloc.rs index 2f908e3d0e956..242a054199f42 100644 --- a/std/src/sys/pal/unix/alloc.rs +++ b/std/src/sys/pal/unix/alloc.rs @@ -59,10 +59,9 @@ unsafe impl GlobalAlloc for System { } cfg_if::cfg_if! { - // We use posix_memalign wherever possible, but not all targets have that function. + // We use posix_memalign wherever possible, but some targets have very incomplete POSIX coverage + // so we need a fallback for those. if #[cfg(any( - target_os = "redox", - target_os = "espidf", target_os = "horizon", target_os = "vita", ))] { @@ -74,12 +73,11 @@ cfg_if::cfg_if! { #[inline] unsafe fn aligned_malloc(layout: &Layout) -> *mut u8 { let mut out = ptr::null_mut(); - // We prefer posix_memalign over aligned_malloc since with aligned_malloc, - // implementations are making almost arbitrary choices for which alignments are - // "supported", making it hard to use. For instance, some implementations require the - // size to be a multiple of the alignment (wasi emmalloc), while others require the - // alignment to be at least the pointer size (Illumos, macOS) -- which may or may not be - // standards-compliant, but that does not help us. + // We prefer posix_memalign over aligned_malloc since it is more widely available, and + // since with aligned_malloc, implementations are making almost arbitrary choices for + // which alignments are "supported", making it hard to use. For instance, some + // implementations require the size to be a multiple of the alignment (wasi emmalloc), + // while others require the alignment to be at least the pointer size (Illumos, macOS). // posix_memalign only has one, clear requirement: that the alignment be a multiple of // `sizeof(void*)`. Since these are all powers of 2, we can just use max. let align = layout.align().max(crate::mem::size_of::());