Thanks for the bug report.

Does MSYS/mingw have posix_memalign()? Ie., does this work:

   #include <stdlib.h>

   int main ()
   { 
       void *p;

       posix_memalign (&p, 16, 2343);
   }

?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for the bug report.
> 
> Does MSYS/mingw have posix_memalign()? Ie., does this work:
> 
>    #include <stdlib.h>
> 
>    int main ()
>    { 
>        void *p;
> 
>        posix_memalign (&p, 16, 2343);
>    }
> 
> ?
> 

It's not got that either - grep -r "memalloc" mingw/include doesn't find anything :(

There is something called _aligned_malloc or some such inside MSVCRT70.DLL and higher, which I assume would make the test work - although that's not technically a system DLL, it's on most Windows systems. I didn't feel like messing around trying to make that work ..

Created attachment 28556 [details] [review]
A patch

Here is a patch that uses posix_memalign(), but falls back to malloc() if that is not available.

If you can test it on mingw, I'd appreciated it.

Thanks,

At:

    http://www.freedesktop.org/~sandmann/pixman-0.15.21.tar.gz

is a tarball with that patch applied.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=28556) [details]
> A patch
> 
> Here is a patch that uses posix_memalign(), but falls back to malloc() if that
> is not available.
> 
> If you can test it on mingw, I'd appreciated it.

The test compiles and succeeds.
Thanks for looking at this so quickly!
sam