Re: usmemalign equivalent in performer??

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Rémi Arnaud (remi++at++remi.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 21 Aug 1997 18:34:01 -0700 (PDT)

Markus Haas wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> I am working on an application that uses grio (guaranteed rate i/o) to load
> frames of real time video into a buffer for display. Grio requires direct i/o,
> which in turn requires a memaligned buffer. I would like to be able to split app
> off into its own process. This, of course, requires a shared memory arena.
>
> Does performer have a way to simulate usmemalign with a performer arena?
> (usmemalign + performer arena = crash)
>

 The easiest way is to alocate the size needed + the alignment, and return
 a pointer that is aligned, keeping the other pointer for further deletion

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