aligned_alloc not supported by all standard libraries
In file alignedallocator.hh
the C11 function aligned_alloc
is called that is part of the c++ standard from C++17. Some compilers may provide this functionality in its standard library already, but others not. I've tested on different systems: on our cluster, the standard library does not know aligned_alloc
neither in the C library stdlib.h
nor using std=c++1z
with g++-7. I think, the test #if __APPLE__
is too specific, to find all not working standard libraries.
Better: include a C++ feature test in CheckCXXFeatures.cmake
for this function, e.g.
check_cxx_source_compiles("
#include <cstdlib>
int main()
{
int* p = static_cast<int*>(aligned_alloc(1024, 1024*sizeof *p));
std::free(p);
}
" DUNE_SUPPORTS_C_ALIGNED_ALLOC)
maybe in the future, add also a test for c++ standard library implementation of this function, i.e.
check_cxx_source_compiles("
#include <cstdlib>
int main()
{
int* p = static_cast<int*>(std::aligned_alloc(1024, 1024*sizeof *p));
std::free(p);
}
" DUNE_SUPPORTS_CXX_ALIGNED_ALLOC)