RE: Curl_poll and Windows

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019, Jeff Mears wrote:

>> We'll happily welcome patches that improve libcurl, in this area as well as
>> others! This is all news to me and yet I've toyed with these things for a
>> while... albeit, not much on Windows.
>
> Sure, I'll consider it. The only issue that comes to mind is, in curl-land,
> how would I malloc() memory that is aligned to at least _Alignof(SOCKET)?
> I suppose that this ought to happen automatically if the hosting
> application's malloc is sane.

malloc is defined [1] to return memory aligned for this:

"The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds shall be suitably aligned so
that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type of object and then used to
access such an object"

[1] = https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/malloc.html

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