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Message-ID: <20230602100705.44010dcb@inria.fr>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 10:07:05 +0200
From: Jₑₙₛ Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@...ras.ru>
Subject: Re: [C23 new stdlib 2/4] C23: add the memalignment function

Rich,

on Thu, 1 Jun 2023 15:08:04 -0400 you (Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>)
wrote:

> Wow, I don't know why I didn't realize this being that p&-p is a
> common pattern I use... Somehow I didn't see that it was the same
> operation.

Don't worry this seems to be quite common. As currently proposed this
header tries to interface all the different extensions that are out
there. By doing so, it seems that none of WG14 had noticed that there
is a duplicate pair of functions that have different names but do
exactly the same thing.

Jₑₙₛ

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