Aligned malloc and matching free in C

A coding interview question asked in Nvidia's technical phone screen, last asked Oct 2026. It tests memory management, c++ and pointers.

Write an allocator in C that hands out memory starting at an address that is a multiple of a requested alignment, and the function that gives that memory back. You may use only the plain malloc and free underneath, not posix_memalign…

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