On 2020-06-01 at 15:12 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > I finally found a case where 16-byte alignment for memory returned by > malloc() is required. But it's only on Linux systems that use systemd. > I bet it's trying to marshal arguments for IPC and uses instructions > that require 16-byte alignment. > > Thanks for your help verifying this. > > Chet
You mean that with systemd getpwnam() crashes if using a malloc() that returns addresses not 16-byte aligned? Cornercase, surely, but it seems like a bug in whatever is assuming such alignment. That's not even pointer-size alignment. Cheers
