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D.2.1 __alloca__ Alignment

  • __alloca__ returns an address aligned to 8 bytes.
  • Successive small allocations therefore advance in 8-byte units on this backend.
  • Because wasm uses a linear-memory bump pointer rather than a native ABI stack, it does not need the stronger 16-byte rule used by some native backends.