[issue18835] Add aligned memory variants to the suite of PyMem functions/macros

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> How should we handle platforms which don't provide a memory allocator
> with an alignment? The simplest option is to return NULL (MemoryError).

Are there such platforms? posix_memalign() is a POSIX standard, even OpenBSD has it.

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