Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives Developer Guide and Reference

ID 790148
Date 11/07/2023
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AlignPtr

Aligns a pointer to the specified number of bytes.

Syntax

void* ippAlignPtr(void* ptr, int alignBytes);

Include Files

ippcore.h

Parameters

ptr

Aligned pointer.

alignBytes

Number of bytes to align. Possible values are the powers of 2, that is, 2, 4, 8, 16 and so on.

Description

This function returns a pointer ptr aligned to the specified number of bytes alignBytes. Possible values of alignBytes are powers of two. The function does not check the validity of this parameter.

NOTE:

Do not free the pointer returned by the function, but free the original pointer.