-/// aligned_ttmem_alloc will return suitably aligned memory, and if possible use large pages.
-/// The returned pointer is the aligned one, while the mem argument is the one that needs to be passed to free.
-/// With c++17 some of this functionality can be simplified.
+/// std_aligned_alloc() is our wrapper for systems where the c++17 implementation
+/// does not guarantee the availability of aligned_alloc(). Memory allocated with
+/// std_aligned_alloc() must be freed with std_aligned_free().
+
+void* std_aligned_alloc(size_t alignment, size_t size) {
+
+#if defined(POSIXALIGNEDALLOC)
+ void *mem;
+ return posix_memalign(&mem, alignment, size) ? nullptr : mem;
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+ return _mm_malloc(size, alignment);
+#else
+ return std::aligned_alloc(alignment, size);
+#endif
+}
+
+void std_aligned_free(void* ptr) {
+
+#if defined(POSIXALIGNEDALLOC)
+ free(ptr);
+#elif defined(_WIN32)
+ _mm_free(ptr);
+#else
+ free(ptr);
+#endif
+}
+
+/// aligned_ttmem_alloc() will return suitably aligned memory, if possible using large pages.
+/// The returned pointer is the aligned one, while the mem argument is the one that needs
+/// to be passed to free. With c++17 some of this functionality could be simplified.
+