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31 .Dd $Mdocdate: June 18 2012 $
37 .Nd aligned memory allocation
41 .Fn posix_memalign "void **ptr" "size_t alignment" "size_t size"
42 .Fn memalign "void **ptr" "size_t alignment" "size_t size"
48 bytes of memory such that the allocation's base address is a multiple of
50 and returns the allocation in the value pointed to by
55 must be a power of 2 at least as large as
58 does not have this requirement.
60 Memory that is allocated via
62 can be used as an argument in subsequent calls to
69 function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise it returns an error value.
73 function will fail if:
78 parameter is not a power of 2 at least as large as
81 Memory allocation error.
95 function first appeared in