Small trivial cleanups

[stockfish] / src / misc.cpp

diff --git a/src/misc.cpp b/src/misc.cpp
index 56a3dcad42d888fb7afeccc808f69432fbccf1c6..80c436ac0f256ad31d8cc935a55498820d1bbdc5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/misc.cpp
+++ b/src/misc.cpp
@@ -328,16 +328,16 @@ void prefetch(void* addr) {
 
 #endif
 
-/// Wrappers for systems where the c++17 implementation doesn't guarantee the availability of aligned_alloc.
-/// Memory allocated with std_aligned_alloc must be freed with std_aligned_free.
-///
+
+/// 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 *pointer;
-  if(posix_memalign(&pointer, alignment, size) == 0)
-      return pointer;
-  return nullptr;
+  void *mem;
+  return posix_memalign(&mem, alignment, size) ? nullptr : mem;
 #elif defined(_WIN32)
   return _mm_malloc(size, alignment);
 #else
@@ -346,6 +346,7 @@ void* std_aligned_alloc(size_t alignment, size_t size) {
 }
 
 void std_aligned_free(void* ptr) {
+
 #if defined(POSIXALIGNEDALLOC)
   free(ptr);
 #elif defined(_WIN32)
@@ -355,7 +356,7 @@ void std_aligned_free(void* ptr) {
 #endif
 }
 
-/// aligned_ttmem_alloc() will return suitably aligned memory, and if possible use large pages.
+/// 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.