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Document memory alignment #15586

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There is no guarantee that the memory has not been used before and thus
you cannot assume that its contents are zero bytes.
There is no built-in mechanism to release or free allocated memory.
Solidity does not guarantee and does not require that the values in memory
are placed at positions aligned to a multiple of any value.
Here is an assembly snippet you can use for allocating memory that follows the process outlined above:

.. code-block:: yul
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