From e98f573688875dd53dfd14131b11382e5663b78c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joost Peters
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:13:09 +0000
Subject: add comment for clarification

svn-id: r35528
---
 engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp')

diff --git a/engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp b/engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp
index 9e19841562..704f3c8104 100644
--- a/engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp
+++ b/engines/tinsel/heapmem.cpp
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ MEM_NODE *MemoryAlloc(int flags, long size) {
 	}
 
 #ifdef SCUMM_NEED_ALIGNMENT
-	size = (size + 3) & ~3;
+	size = (size + 3) & ~3;	//round up to nearest multiple of 4, this ensures the addresses that are returned are 4-byte aligned as well.
 #endif
 
 	while ((flags & DWM_NOALLOC) == 0 && bCompacted) {
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