[cfe-dev] aligned 'new'

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 07:49:28AM +0400, Anton Yartsev wrote:
> I am thinking of the ability of operator new to return memory aligned 
> according to the alignment of the type passed to it (at least of AltiVec 
> vector types whose proper alignment is essential).

Why do you need to change the language for that at all?
At least for UNIX-like systems, you could just use a call to
posix_memalign with your size,alignment pair and call the placement new
on the result. Wrap it around in one or two macros (instance vs array)
and it is done.

Joerg