Re: This bug is everywhere else too
A calloc that tries to make assumptions about alignment based on the inputs is just an invalid implementation. The C standard says "The calloc function allocates space for an array of nmemb objects, each of whose size is size. The space is initialized to all bits zero." It cannot assume the size is not really size, but something larger. Typically the second parameter is sizeof(something), and if "something" has alignment requirements in an array, sizeof already takes care of rounding up.
All implementations I have seen just multiply the numbers together and call malloc with them (or call the same internal function malloc calls). The only gotcha is if the implementer does not realize the multiplication can overflow and wrap to something less than either size parameter. Sadly, that is how many callocs are...
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