Hipe and memory alignment (Yikes! erts_alloc() returned misaligned address)

[Paul Guyot]

Hello,

When running erl with native (hipe) code on some platforms (FreeBSD amd64), one quickly encounters messages such as:

Yikes! erts_alloc() returned misaligned address 0x8016a512c

This message seems to come from hipe_bifs:alloc_data/2. The allocator is the system allocator, which on unix platform is malloc, and malloc does not necessarily return aligned blocks (on MacOS X, it does, but not on FreeBSD).

Does it really matter? (hipe_bifs:alloc_data/2 is only called from hipe_unified_loader:create_data_segment/3).
If it doesn't, can we remove the log line?
If it does, can we replace the allocator with another one that always return aligned blocks?

Paul
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