[issue18835] Add aligned memory variants to the suite of PyMem functions/macros

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at gmail.com> added the comment:

I merged my PR 4199 (Document PyObject_Malloc()) and PR 4200 (Cleanup pymalloc) to prepare PR 4089.

PR 4089 should now be completed and well tested.

The real question is now if we need PyMem_AlignedAlloc()?

Stefan Krah and Nathaniel Smith are interested by aligned memory allocations, but both wrote that they don't plan to use PyMem_AlignedAlloc() if I understood correctly. What's the point of adding PyMem_AlignedAlloc() in that case?

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