src/share/native/sun/awt/medialib/mlib_sys.c

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rev 8822 : 8024854: PPC64: Basic changes and files to build the class library on AIX
Reviewed-by: alanb, prr, sla, chegar, michaelm, mullan, art
Contributed-by: luchsh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, spoole@linux.vnet.ibm.com, thomas.stuefe@sap.com

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2003, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -84,14 +84,17 @@
 
 /***************************************************************/
 
 void *__mlib_malloc(mlib_u32 size)
 {
-#ifdef _MSC_VER
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(AIX)
   /*
    * Currently, all MS C compilers for Win32 platforms default to 8 byte
    * alignment. -- from stdlib.h of MS VC++5.0.
+   *
+   * On AIX, the malloc subroutine returns a pointer to space suitably
+   * aligned for the storage of any type of object (see 'man malloc').
    */
   return (void *) malloc(size);
 #elif defined(MACOSX)
   return valloc(size);
 #else