Fix comment.
It stores the pointer, not an offset (that would be an alternative approach).
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ static void *huge_malloc(BLASLONG size){
#endif
/* Benchmarks should allocate with cacheline (often 64 bytes) alignment
- to avoid unreliable results. This technique, storing the offset in the
- byte before the pointer, doesn't require C11's aligned_alloc for
- compatibility with older compilers. */
+ to avoid unreliable results. This technique, storing the allocated
+ pointer value just before the aligned memory, doesn't require
+ C11's aligned_alloc for compatibility with older compilers. */
static void *aligned_alloc_cacheline(size_t n)
{
void *p = malloc((size_t)(void *) + n + L1_DATA_LINESIZE - 1);
