AIX:Proposal to use kSemaphoreAlignmentMask instead kPointerAlignmentMask

src/base/platform/semaphore.cc

 // Copyright 2013 the V8 project authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "src/base/platform/semaphore.h"
 
 #if V8_OS_MACOSX
 #include <mach/mach_init.h>
 #include <mach/task.h>
 #endif
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   }
 }
 
 #elif V8_OS_POSIX
 
 Semaphore::Semaphore(int count) {
   // The sem_init() does not check for alignment of the native handle.
   // Unaligned native handle can later cause a failure in semaphore signal.
   // Check the alignment here to catch the failure earlier.
   // Context: crbug.com/605349.
-  const uintptr_t kPointerAlignmentMask = sizeof(void*) - 1;
+#if V8_OS_AIX
+  // On aix sem_t is of type int
+  const uintptr_t kSemaphoreAlignmentMask = sizeof(int) - 1;
+#else
+  const uintptr_t kSemaphoreAlignmentMask = sizeof(void*) - 1;
+#endif
   CHECK_EQ(
-      0, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&native_handle_) & kPointerAlignmentMask);
+      0, reinterpret_cast<uintptr_t>(&native_handle_) &
+      kSemaphoreAlignmentMask);
   DCHECK(count >= 0);
 #if V8_LIBC_GLIBC
   // sem_init in glibc prior to 2.1 does not zero out semaphores.
   memset(&native_handle_, 0, sizeof(native_handle_));
 #endif
   int result = sem_init(&native_handle_, 0, count);
   DCHECK_EQ(0, result);
   USE(result);
 }
 
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       DCHECK(result == WAIT_OBJECT_0);
       return true;
     }
   }
 }
 
 #endif  // V8_OS_MACOSX
 
 }  // namespace base
 }  // namespace v8