[Numpy-discussion] Byte aligned arrays

[Sturla Molden]

On 20.12.2012 20:57, Sturla Molden wrote:
> On 20.12.2012 20:52, Henry Gomersall wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the DLL should go and read MS's edicts!
>
> Do you link with same same CRT as Python? (msvcr90.dll)
>
> You should always use -lmsvcr90.
>
> If you don't, you will link with msvcrt.dll.

Here is VS2008, which uses malloc from msvcr90.dll:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ycsb6wwf(v=vs.90).aspx

"malloc is required to return memory on a 16-byte boundary"

If this does not happen, you are linking with the wrong CRT. When 
building C extensions for Python, we should always link with the same 
CRT as Python uses, unless you are 100% certain that CRT resources are 
never shared with Python.


Sturla