aligned_box: Allocate aligned heap memory in Rust.

aligned_box provides traits and implementations for the allocation of aligned heap memory. It adds new constructors to std::boxed::Box in order to do aligned allocations.

Examples

Place value 17 of type i32 on the heap, aligned to 64 bytes:

use aligned_box::AlignedBox;
let b = Box::<i32>::new_aligned(64, 17);

Allocate memory for 1024 values of type f32 on the heap, aligned to 128 bytes. Values are initialized by their default value:

use aligned_box::AlignedBoxedSliceFromDefault;
let b = Box::<[f32]>::new_aligned_slice_from_default(128, 1024);

Allocate memory for 1024 values of type f32 on the heap, aligned to 128 bytes. All values are initialized with PI:

use aligned_box::AlignedBoxedSliceFromValue;
let b = Box::<[f32]>::new_aligned_slice_from_value(128, 1024, std::f32::consts::PI);