Oh that is indeed a good list, you should submit that gist independently. That said, I believe alignments should be a suggestion and not a mandatory request, ma

Oh that is indeed a good list, you should submit that gist independently. That said, I believe alignments should be a suggestion and not a mandatory request, mainly because the library can fix a bad alignment by overallocation. Charles Bloom has suggested a similar thing in the past [1]. Out of possible flags the zeroing flag is probably the most used and possibly only flag needed for library uses; others are also important but only a small number of libraries will ever want them. Again, a failure to do so should ideally be somehow detected and fixed, but that detection can't be actually checking for non-zeros, so the provided function should somehow return whether the memory was actually zeroed or not. (I also share the same concern about the site, by the way.) [1] https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2015/09/library-writing-realizations.html https://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2015/09/library-writing-rea... (specifically the "Simplicity is better" point)