How to guarantee alignment with malloc and or new?

**mynickmynick** · 08-27-2008

Originally Posted by matsp

There are two ways to achieve aligned new - placement new with a pre-aligned buffer and implement a class-specific new/delete pair. In both cases, you will be allocating memory separately, but in the class-specific new/delete you can hide the fact from a user of the classs.

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Mats

could you give some example code?

**matsp** · 08-27-2008

Originally Posted by mynickmynick

could you give some example code?

http://www.bearcave.com/software/c++_mem.html is the first link on "Overloading new". Stroustrup mentions in-class implementation of new/delete on pages 422-423 (and a few other places, but that's less meaningful).

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Mats

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