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Removed incorrect comment; malloc() is inefficient only when the

alignment and size are both powers of two, and there's no way to
specify an alignment through the malloc() interface anyway.
tags/v0.9.3
Michael Brown 18 years ago
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@@ -195,11 +195,6 @@ void free_memblock ( void *ptr, size_t size ) {
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  *
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  * Allocates memory with no particular alignment requirement.  @c ptr
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  * will be aligned to at least a multiple of sizeof(void*).
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- *
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- * Note that malloc() is very inefficient for allocating blocks where
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- * the size is a power of two; if you have many of these
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- * (e.g. descriptor rings, data buffers) you should use malloc_dma()
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- * instead.
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  */
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 void * malloc ( size_t size ) {
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 	size_t total_size;

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