xref: /src/lib/libc/stdlib/aligned_alloc.c

/* $NetBSD: aligned_alloc.c,v 1.1 2015/11/07 16:21:42 nros Exp $ */

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#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void *
aligned_alloc(size_t alignment, size_t size)
{
        void *memptr;
        int err;

        /*
         * Check that alignment is a power of 2
         * and that size is an integer multiple of alignment.
         */
        if (alignment == 0 || ((alignment - 1) & alignment) != 0 ||
            (size & (alignment-1)) != 0) {
                errno = EINVAL;
                return NULL;
        }

        /*
         * Adjust alignment to satisfy posix_memalign,
         * larger alignments satisfy smaller alignments.
         */
        while (alignment < sizeof(void *)) {
                alignment <<= 1;
        }

        err = posix_memalign(&memptr, alignment, size);

        if (err) {
                errno = err;
                return NULL;
        }

        return memptr;
}