Answer by resultsway for How to allocate aligned memory only using the standard library?

You can also add some 16 bytes and then push the original ptr to 16bit aligned by adding the (16-mod) as below the pointer :

main(){
void *mem1 = malloc(1024+16);
void *mem = ((char*)mem1)+1; // force misalign ( my computer always aligns)
printf ( " ptr = %p \n ", mem );
void *ptr = ((long)mem+16) & ~ 0x0F;
printf ( " aligned ptr = %p \n ", ptr );

printf (" ptr after adding diff mod %p (same as above ) ", (long)mem1 + (16 -((long)mem1%16)) );


free(mem1);
}